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

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[tlb]

>>> Google is NOT the arbiter of truth I mean. If you google this word now, all you get is story on Palin

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Google allows you to set a range of dates for a search. Inspired by your post I checked this and set the range to end on Jan 1, 2010.

refudiate -palin
About 785,000 results (0.18 seconds)
Any time–Jan 1, 2010

Tons of activity for “refudiate” having nothing to do with Palin. Interesting.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

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

an orifice of Richard Gere?

[PA Engineer]

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

...and text messaging.

[bruinbirdman]

Somebody texted so much it became a verb.

yitbos

[byteback]

refudidate is not a word that Palin made up

I think she merged two words, repudiate and refute. She probably meant refute. But then again my major was in Engineering and writing was a necessary evil course. Still I would have used spell check.

[kingu]

To Dictionary.com: When you arbitrarily changed the definition of marriage from a ‘union of a man and a woman’ to a ‘union of two people’, you lost any standing to complain about anyone else changing language. Just like changing your definition of marriage (and mine’s still the same as it was), you're playing politics here. Wonder if you're a registered PAC...

[cynwoody]

According to Merriam-Webster, it's been a word since 1981.

Of course, any English speaker with a brain would know what it means without needing a dictionary.

[byteback]

Now I’m thinking she meant repudiate. Either way it looks like it could be a new cool word to mean both disprove of and dissociate with.

[cynwoody]

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

Yes, they continue to fail to evict her from their heads, even though she resides there for negative rent (seven figures, as I recall).

[4rcane]

I use opera browser which has auto spell checker. This story is really much about nothing. Media hold Palin to higher standard than Obama and themselves

[marron]

Worrying about her use of language helps them avoid dealing with the point, which is that New York’s grandees have granted permission for a mosque to be built at Ground Zero.

And she has called them on it (as have millions of people) and all they can do is prattle. They are building a mosque at Ground Zero, and all they can do is prattle.

[hosepipe]

Refudiate = consider any and all things coming from someone's mouth total BULLSHIT....

**Example: I refudiate Jimah Carter, Bill Clinton And BArry Half-White..

[I still care]

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

How many people here have been called out by the spelling police, and it’s not really a spelling error at all, but just clumsy fingers hitting the wrong button at the wrong time. I personally always have to go through all my notes for “teh” which I put in place of “the”.

Maybe she simply put an f instead of a p while typing fast.

You know, like saying 57 states when you mean 50.

[VeniVidiVici]

Another manufactured, ginormous falaffle by the State Run Media about nothing.

Hey! Did everyone hear the latest about Palin?

[meadsjn]

Free Republic has several words that were created by errant keystrokes or brain farts, gamers have quite a few, and then they just won’t go away.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

I swear...

I have heard numerous people use the same word. and I have worked in radio for years..

[SueRae]

Actually, it may have been Sarah who said that. Go backandcheck the article...”Sarah’s response:” immediately precedes the remark. Good for her..

[Fresh Wind]

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

So tell me...

Do you have a torch in your boot?

[spacejunkie01]

I also hear alot of people say ‘flustrated’...flustered and frustrated

[Anvilhead]

LOL!