From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   "aesthete8@hotmail.com"  writes:   
      
   > The following article includes my favorite Orwell quote:   
   >   
   > http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/30559.html   
      
   Indeed, I have included it (in a slangy, abbreviated form) in my   
   signature file.   
      
   I am dubious, however, about the statement attributed to Madison.  I   
   am rather surprised to learn, from the OED, that he *might* have   
   written "bastardize"; but I still hold out against "historical   
   background".   
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   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
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