SA> I'll probably get a copy later today, it is in the local bookshop, which
SA> has been closed for the holidays. "Misspeak" and
"misspoke" don't appear
SA> in my fairly recent dictionary, but they would normally have meanings
SA> like other "mis-" words - mishear, misplace etc - as you
say, "slips
SA> of the tongue".

Well,what one expects a word SHOULD mean is often nothing like how 'they' USE
the terms!

SA>  GP>   A reader reports that when the patient died, the attending doctor
SA>  GP> recorded the following on the patient's chart: 
"Patient failed to
SA>  GP> fulfill his wellness potential."
SA>
SA> "Negative patient outcome". But your example is good,
because the fault
SA> lies with the patient, not with the treatment or the doctor/s.

That's just good medical administration, right?

SA>  GP>   A reader reports that the Army calls them "vertically deployed
SA>  GP> anti- personnel devices."  You probably call them bombs.
SA>
SA> Hmmm... I wonder if they would let me board a plane if I declared I was
SA> carrying a "horizontally deployed anti-radiation and
precipitation device";
SA> (an umbrella).

I like it! *G*

Because I care,
<+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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