Jul 23rd
Posted by shambo and filed under Posts Tagged ‘weasel words

Let me say this about that. American poet James Riley is credited with creating the so-called “duck test” when he wrote: “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, you probably got yourself a duck.”  Riley, who died in 1916, worried about the overuse of weasel-words decades before […]

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