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Thus Joan Lunden on ABC-TV said to Steve Crowley, “Are you ready to use the R-word recession ?” Many words like recession could be called semi-taboo words or limited taboos, for scarcely anyone would be shocked or offended to encounter them, though some people avoid using them.
The term encompasses all Latinos (Latin Americans) who are descendents of the Spanish and Indian encounter.
In her interview, Willey gave a paw-by-paw description of her encounter with President Clinton in a small study off the Oval Office and charged that Clinton lied about it.
As we have observed in these pages on numerous occasions, the professional linguist's avowed position with regard to usage is similar to that of a medical doctor's in relation to a patient: both are charged with the responsibility of observing the phenomena they encounter without expressing qualitative opinions about them.
’ A local preacher who came to our chapel greatly amused us by describing the encounter of a prophet with a “burr,’ a word that kept recurring in his sermon.