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Talk:Essay:Best New Conservative Words (view source)
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Although I see that the term was used by Democrats, <strike>I've re-added the term to the list.</strike> The 1996 welfare reform was a major Republican victory, exemplified by the term. [[User:GregG|GregG]] 00:39, 29 January 2013 (EST)
Although I see that the term was used by Democrats, <strike>I've re-added the term to the list.</strike> The 1996 welfare reform was a major Republican victory, exemplified by the term. [[User:GregG|GregG]] 00:39, 29 January 2013 (EST)
== Proposed changes ==
1. Boomerang - the word was not used as a verb until the 1880s. I don't think that there is anything particularly conservative about the noun version of the word.
2. Cesspool - according to the OED this word is from the 1680s and in other examples on this page the Oxford etymology is chosen in preference over Merriam-Webster.
3. Quackery is a word often used by conservatives to describe unproven liberal nonsense in a similar way that claptrap is used to describe other liberal nonsense.
I'd also like clarification on how to know whether a stem word should be used in place of its root. For example, the entry "scapegoating" is based on the 1943 adjective version of the noun "scapegoat", which is from the 1500s - why?