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

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[TomGuy]

Refudiate has been used several times by others in previous years. It was used mostly in blog posts, but writers were using the word.

A couple of more professional examples from 2004 and 2005 are:

[National Park Service] Research Report GRTE-N-1

The Elk of Grand Teton and Southern Yellowstone National Parks National Park Service Arrowhead

THE ELK POPULATION

[paragraph 3] These strongly refudiate opinions that elk and other wildlife were originally scarce in the mountains.

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WOM* Interviews Dr. Marlene Schwartz of the Rudd Institute at Yale University

WOM: Has the Rudd Institute documented bias against obesity by the medical community in general (in addition to those specializing in the treatment of obesity)? What has the Rudd Institute found to substantiate or refudiate this?

*War on Fat website, April, 2005.

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Source search link to additional uses in blogs: alltheweb.com

[P-Marlowe]

Flus´trate

v. t.

1.

To fluster.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co.

[justsaynomore]

I like the word, and have penciled it into my dictionary :D

[rob777]

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


I would have preferred that approach than the "English is a living language" defense and comparing the modern bastardization of the language to Shakespeare.

[Arrowhead1952]

I invented Jourbalism and Jourbalist. Can you spot where they came from?

A misspelling of gerbils? < /sarc>

[Arrowhead1952]

The word has been around for a while:

John Sladek - 2005 - Fiction - 144 pages

Yet, these same reporters never mentioned that barry zero said he campaigned in 'all 57 states' but may have missed one or two.

eff the SRM.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

What ticks me off is the time I accidently used the term, “homocide”. I meant “homicide” of course. But killing of homosexuals is now a word one can easily stumble into thanks to a leftist-run spellcheck system.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

What loon was given the power to coin the word, “homocide” [not to be confused with homIcide] ? It’s absurd. It’s easy if the loony left backs you.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Please note post 68. Leftists invent truly lunatic words all the time.

[RobRoy]

I remember that. The guy that called you out got chastized for making a joke on a very serious thread.

I just thought it was funny. :)

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

The darn word slipped through spell-check. It was embarrassing, but I'm used to it. If Palin is 'listening in', humor is the best way to react. That Shakespear retort only fans the flames. Let's not forget Vice President "Potatoe" Head. He took the ribbing too seriously, even years later. The joke's sparkle never faded.

People don't give a fig about some minor tweet-slip. That's nothing. It's easy to poke the other side, as FReepers are pointing out. A comic keeps a serious face when he's being roasted. That drags the joke out.

[Responsibility2nd]

I didn’t.

[free me]

And no one seems to be thinking that maybe she mispelled a text message by accident?

No but that's probably because Sarah corrected herself, made a follow up joke about it and had already SPOKEN the word on Hannity a couple days earlier.

[Katya]

are we sure she didn’t say “repudiate” and simply enunciated badly?

[Katya]

nevermind..i just read it was a tweet....so misspelling prob

[I still care]

Thanks. I was unaware of that.

I’m always mistyping things because I have some hand paralysis, and I keep thinking people must think I don’t know how to spell. I go over each message at least twice but I usually miss something.

[RobRoy]

If I’d known the guy who died personally, I wouldn’t have thought it was funny either. But I didn’t. I thought the whole subthread was comical.

[free me]

I know what you mean. My hands are fine and I’m still always mistyping things too ;)

[dmz]

She misspoke...

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

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I concur.

[Outership]

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

George Washington defeated the U in a decisive victory during the battle of Yorktown. The U’s surrender even lead to a negotiation for an end to the conflict.