Jul 23rd
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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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