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and I am not going to make a federal case out of this

Holy shit! So many "loaded" words for my year. I guess I will just settle on "ditzy".

Brownie Point

Doublespeak

Veterans Day

A selected few from 1789:

alcoholic
choreography
democrat
district attorney
ego
immigrant
Iranian
libertarian
melodramatic
philanthropic
private enterprise
technological
unemployment
wide-eyed

the year RI was born

2005

didymo

functional calculus

glamping

locavore

micro blogging

pre-exposure prophylaxis

ransomware

rock snot

sexting

truther

vodcast

Cordelia » Sat Nov 10, 2018 3:11 pm wrote:Brownie Point

Doublespeak

Veterans Day

Wait a minute..........the OP link is faulty; because I wasn't born in either 1926 or 1938, when...

... Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938....

https://www.history.com/topics/holidays ... -day-facts

I wasn't even born in 1954, when Ike signed signed HR7786, changing the name 'Armistice Day' to 'Veterans Day'!


President Eisenhower signing HR7786

Merriam & Webster lied--I want my money back!