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References Briggs 1988; Brown 1978; Espinosa 1985; Fisher 1958; Henderson 1937; Ingalls 1996; Rael 1950; Robb 1980
I have some sympathy for Doug Briggs's stance against American circumlocution.
As Mr. Briggs seems to be saying, ideas have consequences, and so do the words that express them.
In his piece, The Day They Took the Peck out of Pecksniffian [XXIII, 4], Doug Briggs observed, There is a movement to decriminalize the meanings of words that once described criminal conduct in unmistakable terms.
Too often prisons are called correction facilities; a lavatory with urinals a bathroom; and as Briggs wrote, dope a controlled substance.