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  • Dave Wilton

Dave Wilton

24 Oct 2023 • 4 min read
Halloween
A Halloween jack o’ lantern

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Lithograph on newsprint of the god Mars standing at attention with a rifle and Cupid carrying flowers
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Photo of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, in judicial robe, sitting in a chair

notorious

9 March 2026 Usage manuals like to point out that notorious refers to someone or something of unfavorable reputation and that the word should not be used to mean merely famous or notable. While this is true to an extent, like many questions of usage the answer is more complicated,
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Picketers in front of an Oxnard, California supermarket carrying signs that read Boycott in English and Boicot in Spanish
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