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According to an article published today by the Associated Press, there are a large number of people who eat a mostly vegetarian diet, supplemented occasionally with meat. The article describes these folks thus: "These so-called 'flexitarians' — a term voted most useful word of 2003 by the American Dialect Society — are motivated less by animal rights than by a growing body of medical data that suggests health benefits from eating more vegetarian foods." I went to the website of the American Dialect Society to see (1) if there was such a critter and (2) if they vote about new words and (3) if "flexitarian" was one of those words. http://www.americandialect.org/ And the answers are yup, yup and yup.
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huh. I thought it was a rogue band of Rotarians who perform community service through yoga...
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... or blonde, white people who stand there, making their biceps bulge?
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... or Unitarians who change their views a lot?
that was affectionately for you, eta
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Unitarianseven better! thanks, Anna! though I'm more of a Universalist... <wink>
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