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splat@14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 07:03 PM
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Koran in the toilet caused some ire, should we be upset with what Bush
Has done to the dictionary. Yea, I know hardly a comparison the Koran being a holy book and all. "Bush-isms" are just too much, too often to let slide though. No disrespect intended to any book; the Koran , the dictionary or Dr Suess....all of it heaped on Shrub.

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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Bush disassembles English language, again
When asked at today's press conference about Amnesty International's report criticizing America's treatment of detainees, President Bush called the claims "absurd." According to the White House transcript, he also said:
"It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of -- and the allegations -- by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble -- that means not tell the truth."
My brother Bob Pescovitz comments, "I always thought 'disassemble' meant 'to take apart,' but maybe that's 'dissemble.' But his wife is a librarian so I guess I'm wrong."

Even more ridiculous than Bush using the wrong word is the fact that the Chicago Tribune had the nerve to kindly correct his mistake when quoting him! Link to White House transcript, Link to Chicago Tribune article (republished at KansasCity.com, BugMeNot's login worked for me. Email: icantkick@mailinator.com, Password: oregon1)

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who pointed out that "dissemble" was yesterday's Dictionary.com "Word of the Day." Link
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