;Posted on 12/05/2012 4:10:08 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, December 5, 2012—bowdlerize
;bowdlerize [bohd-luh-rahyz, boud-]
verb (used with object), bowd•ler•ized, bowd•ler•iz•ing
to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
Origin: 1836, from Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), English editor who in 1818 published a notorious expurgated Shakespeare, in which, according to his frontspiece, "nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."
Related forms
bowd•ler•ism, noun.
bowd•ler•i•za•tion, noun.
bowd•ler•iz•er, noun.
un•bowd•ler•ized, adjective.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
And ... it’s gone.
That bad, was it?
You can’t really omit the preposition from “eating out with my wife.”
It’s so busy, no one eats there anymore.
Nobody goes there any more. It’s too crowded.
Oh, no-what a blunder-I really shouldn’t be laughing...
Woody Allen?
No, like all humorous quotes, Yogi Berra.
“I never said half the things I said”.
Got it from context . HILARIOUS.
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