Thursday, February 23, 2006

 

Ugly Verbs

One bitter fruit of Bush's wiretapping policy is the verb surveil (from surveillance), repeated ad nauseam by pundits and politicians. It would be hard to find another verb so ugly and misshapen, unless perhaps it's liaise (from liaison).



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