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Bushisms: Where Wings Take Dream

A list of 20 words by pedalinfaith.

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Bushonics is so much more than neologisms and nonstandard agentive endings. He has brought malapropism, pleonasm, catachresis, solecism, and utter gibberish to new heights. Not to mention the thinning of the boundary between colloquial and formal speech, the liberal use of misplaced modifiers, and general disregard for the rules of subject-verb agreement.

Here, we pay a small tribute to his dumbing down of the American ear. For a more extensive look behind his genius, go here.

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  • whichbe insticated Nov 19, 2009

  • pedalinfaith Incorporated them. Thanks! Dec 14, 2006

  • inkhorn Here are some more:

    analyzation
    aleve
    internets? Dec 14, 2006

  • pedalinfaith Thanks, kad, for 'uninalienable'. It also opened up an avenue to a few more gems. Dec 14, 2006

  • pedalinfaith Yes, sadly, these come from actual quotes. You can find the references for them all over the web. The only exception is strategery, which was coined by Will Farrell in a send-up of W on SNL. It's rumored the the president loved it so much, he adopted it and it became part of the White House vernacular. Dec 14, 2006

  • sonofgroucho Did Bush actually say all of these, or are you just making them (or some of them) up? Hilarious, anyway! Dec 14, 2006

  • kad uninalienable Dec 13, 2006

  • pedalinfaith Thanks, inkhorn. I'll take that compliment in stride. :) Dec 13, 2006

  • inkhorn Wow. If anyone needs a definition of "upbraid", we have an example. ;) Dec 13, 2006

  • pedalinfaith Thanks, uselessness. 'subliminable' led me to finding a few others as well! Dec 13, 2006

  • uselessness subliminable? Dec 13, 2006