"Sarah Palin raised linguists' eyebrows this weekend when she urged Muslims to "refudiate'' a controversial mosque -- then defended her garbled English as Shakespearean. The darling of the Republican right and possible 2012 White House candidate coined the word Sunday in a Tweet criticizing plans for a mosque at Ground Zero in New York.
At first Palin appeared embarrassed, deleting the message on her Twitter page and replacing it with a call for Muslims to "refute'' the plan, this time using a real word, but questionable grammar.
Her next update returned to "refudiate'' and now proudly proclaimed Palin as heir both to literary genius William Shakespeare and Republican ex-president George W. Bush, famous for his repeated howlers, such as "misunderestimate.''
"'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language,'' Palin Tweeted. "Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!''
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Palin the linguist invents a word: "refudiate"
Started by DOLLY, Jul 20 2010 09:43 AM
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