Sarah Palin ...What’s the big problem with refudiate? From Dictionary.com

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[jessduntno]

“Wee-wee’d up” is a lexical creation by President Barack Obama.”

And it can only be said while wearing neatly pressed Mommy jeans.

[RobRoy]

I write a lot of Business requirements, functional requirements and even teaching documents. There is a word I use all the time that does not exist and I’ve even “added” it to my dictionary in Word. Like Shakespeare, I too invented a word. It comes from the word incentive. The word is incent.

The spell checker here hates it too. :)

FWIW, sometimes I say subscription when I mean prescription. So sue me. ;)

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

The article is dripping with nitpickyeousness.

[4rcane]

refudidate is not a word that Palin made up. I’ve seen it used elsewhere. Its common usage

[freedumb2003]

Sarah Palin: the first person ever to enter typographical error (colloquial: “typo”) since the beginning of the Internets.

[Ronin]

Although it is not quite commonly accepted, I have heard refudiate used a number of times before this controversy started.

Sarah certainly did not make it up. I figured it for one of those regional words that pop up now and then.

[KoRn]

She misspoke...

She should have simply said: “I misspoke”, and moved on.

[4rcane]

Notice they’re comparing her to Obama and Bush. Both US Presidents. Funny that

[The Watcher]

Who cares what people put on Twitter? It’s the embodiment of language destruction.

[freedumb2003]

Well, if it isn’t just a simple type, then it could be a construct like “proffer” (Legal term combining “proof” and “offer” = “offer of proof.”)

[magritte]

A quick google shows people using the word “refudiate” as far back as 2005...whatta non-story...magritte

[4rcane]

its like colour and color. The correct spelling is colour, but Americans have changed it to color

[freedumb2003]

>>It’s the embodiment of language destruction.<<

w8 — R U sayng twtr isnt grmtcally crect?

[tioga]

no it’s not. try googling it.

[freedumb2003]

>>The correct spelling is colour, but Americans have changed it to color<<

Just like we changed “bonnet” to “hood”, “lorry” to “truck”, “slip road” to “on-ramp”, “lift” to “elevator” and “futball” to “boring”...?

[Niteflyr]

Here come de Palin haters....

[4rcane]

Who cares? Grammar police care. We got some resident Grammar police on Freerepublic. If I use the word ppl. I get half a dozen ppl all over me.

[shibumi]

My favorite if the word “frutile.”

It was coined (as best I can gather) by the writers of The Dick Van Dyke Show back in the early 60s.

The word combines “fruitless” and “futile.”

[American Dream 246]

Notice they’re comparing her to Obama and Bush. Both US Presidents. Funny that

YES...I did not notice...wow...that's VERY interesting. Thanks :-)