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#203155 11/09/11 01:52 AM
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Today was election day in Kentucky. Why is it this word and not governatorial, please? (I'm thinking this may have been on here before, but when I tried a Search I got The specified date range is too wide. The maximum date range you can search with is 1 year , and I don't want to search year by year.)

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It's gubernatorial because Humpty Dumpty says it's gubernatorial.

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because so often we elect goobers.


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you can't possibly be remembering this thread, wherein your question was answered by Bingley.

well, actually the Word Detective has the details, in which, as we all know, the devil resides.

(I did a simple search, avoiding that advanced hokum.)

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Well--can't say that I was remembering that thread specifically, but I was pretty sure it had been mentioned and answered before. Thank you!
Gubernare...maybe it'll stick, this time.



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