Sunday, March 18, 2007

Neologism of the Month -- 2007-03

You've probably heard this one, but I wanted to set it down for the record once I came across the original source.

Inspired by Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales's recent heavy use of the passive voice -- "mistakes were made" -- CNN senior political analyst William Schneider said that Washington had developed a whole new grammatical tense: the past exonerative.

Nice.

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