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In Defense of Harding the Bloviator 
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Why Warren G. Harding has gotten a bad rap on "normalcy" and "bloviate."
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"Refudiate" and Other Accidental Coinages
July 27, 2010
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Taking a measured look at the controversy over Sarah Palin's use of the word refudiate.
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The blogosphere has been abuzz over Sarah Palin's use of the word refudiate in a Twitter update, apparently mashing up refute and repudiate. Now OUPblog, the official blog of Oxford University Press, weighs in. "Refudiate this, word snobs!" chortles OUP lexicographer Christine Lindberg. Read all about it here.
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