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Encyclopædia Britannica vs Merriam-Webster, Inc.
We may never know why, shortly after our American born Merriam-Webster, Inc. and its many, many dictionaries and publications were purchased by and became a subsidiary of the British Encyclopædia Britannica in The Year of The Poison Pill (1964) that, … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Economics, Expository Writing, For Feminists, Justice, Observations, Plain English, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged 1964, American, British, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act, Cults, Culture, Definitions, Dictionaries, Economics, Encyclopædia Britannica, English, Feminism, History, Language, Logos, Merriam-Webster, Politics, Propaganda, Sexual Equality, The Year of The Poison Pill, Trademarks, Webster's Dictionary, Wisdom
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The Hyphen War
The psychological disorder and descriptive diagnosis of PTSD has undergone a gradual evolutionary change of labels over time but it is still essentially the same disorder; it’s still the same disease. Variously named, PTSD was called: Shell Shock (in World … Continue reading
Posted in Dirty Words, Government, Human Sacrifice, Humor, Mass Media, Observations, Politics, PTSD, Veterans
Tagged "The United States of America", american psychiatric association, APA, Battle Fatigue, British, Department of Veterans Affairs, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition, diagram a sentence, DSM-IV, DVA, General Sherman, Government, Grammar, Horror, Humanity, Hyphen, Hyphenation, Masters of Understatement, Operational Exhaustion, point-of-view, Politics, Post Traumatic-Stress Disorder, Post Vietnam Syndrome, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, POV, PSD, PTSD, PVS, Shell Shock, Terror, The Korean War, The Powers That Be, The Vietnam War, Truth, VA, Veteran's Administration, War, War is Hell, World War I, World War II
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I Must Be Very, Very Special
It’s not every day you meet a man who’s been censored by two dictionaries. That would be me. I am, of course, referring to both Wiktionary and Merriam-Webster Online. Long-story-short, it’s all about the dictionary definition of feminism. Many years … Continue reading
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