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I mentioned elsewhen that I have a whole bunch of dictionaries I refer to when researching words. just as a for instance, from Eugene Ehrlich's The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate comes this:
Do not confuse quash with squash. Uprisings and indictments are quashed; hats and ripe grapes are squashed. But see squelch, which in one of its meanings is synonymous with quash.
this book is a wonderful resource for the not to be confused with theme.
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As quash appears to come from quassre, to shatter) of cassre, from Latin cassus it should be possible to quash a squash or grapes for that matter, though more usually they get squashed. squelch-quashed, but no quelch-squashed, although in one of its meanings squelch is synonymous to quench , which is quelch but for one letter difference. 
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The confusing thing is I knew the word 'squash'. I did not know the word 'quash'. So now I can go confuse them.  
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Oh nooooo Bran  A squash is also a type of vegetable, some places its called marrow (but I think you knew that). Which would you use to stomp out rumour? squash a rumour or quash a rumour?
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Oxford and American Heritage don't seem to want to let me choose quash here, so I'll go with Merriam-Webster, which does. Maybe.
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you may have discovered that M-W is more discriptive than the others. in this case. maybe.
-joe (I used to be far more prescriptive till I started coming here) friday
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Non-prescriptive could still mean quiet dislike and silent non-support.
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Which would you use to stomp out rumour?
I think I would neither stomp out nor quash rumour. Isn't rumour something irrational whispered or babbled around? I think it's not in the nature of a rumour to be stomped or quashed. It's like you can't quash ghosts. Or wind.
@tsuwm. Is this one in this special dictionary? mediacracy not to be confused with mediocracy? Just because recently I read this word.
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mediacracy seems to be one of those UD, slang-type neologisms; i.e., it hain't hardly in any dictionary, yet.
but of course, having said this, I find that it has been in the online OED since 2001:
The (supposed) dominance of the mass media over society through its powerful influence upon government. Also, collectively: dominant or controlling figures in the mass media.
although a (supposed) mediacracy may well also be a mediocracy, you shouldn't be confused if you know the roots are media and mediocre.
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HELLO ratram oh I thought you meant this website (Wordsmith) but you were talking about lineage 
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HELLO ratram oh I thought you meant this website (Wordsmith) but you were talking about lineage yeah, lineage as it refers to spam...
formerly known as etaoin...
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glad you enjoy it; begone with your advertising.
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he's been banned at least thrice now; he just seems to keep registering under new names.
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you could say he has been quashed 
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I, for one, notified "contact" to have him eliminated.
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I, for one, notified "contact" to have him eliminated. Ooh, Luke has scary contacts! 
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It's those black submachine guns that gave me away, right?
Only doing what has been suggested here on the site.
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I should have done it 
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I should have done it well, I done did it! From: Anu Garg
"I've deleted the user and the spam. Thanks for the alert, Michael!"
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I, for one, notified "contact" to have him eliminated. Ooh, Luke has scary contacts! Anu was pleased with the notification.
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It sounded like you planned to call on Tony Soprano.
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Guido. I always call Guido.
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I did not know he was still in business.
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Or you would have called him instead of Anu?
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He doesn't have Anu's sophistication and finesse, but he's dependable. And dogged.
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and they stay eliminated. Ha
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Sort of like being voted off an island or some such, in a
modern reality show.
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