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20 Feb 2024, 6:00 am
" Mirriam-Webster defines jobbery as "the improper use of public office or conduct of public business for private gain". [read post]
19 Feb 2024, 3:07 pm
3 The Oxford English Dictionary 113 (2d ed. 1989) (defining “child” as an “unborn or newly born human being; foetus, infant”); Webster’s Third New International Dictionary 388 (2002) (defining “child” as “an unborn or recently born human being”). [read post]
19 Feb 2024, 1:45 am
Last Week in the Courts On 12 and 13 February 2024 there was an application in the case of Webster -v- Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs QB-2021-003999. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 3:33 pm
The most remarkable thing about last Thursday’s oral argument in Trump v. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 6:38 am
Merriam-Webster distinguishes “fast food” from “fast casual. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 1:02 am
., Beyond the Editorial Analogy: The Future of the First Amendment on the Internet (2024), Communications of the ACM Stratmann, Magdalena Martha Theresa and Spürkel, Josefine and Soulier, Éloise and Mast, Tobias, Mapping Normative Values: A Framework for Evaluating Freedom of Communication in the Digital Age, Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research Glendening, Marc, Dictating Words: the Culture-control Left and the War Against Free Speech (2023), Institute of Economic Affairs, IEA… [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 9:36 am
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5 Feb 2024, 4:22 pm
Since Mrs Justice Collins Rice handed down judgment in Fox v Blake [2024] EWHC 146 (KB) there has been a lot of online discussion about the case. [read post]
4 Feb 2024, 6:29 pm
Supreme Court were to settle upon and announce a definition in this case—particularly one as broad and open-ended as that in Noah Webster’s 1857 American Dictionary of the English Language (which included “the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of law”)—such a ruling could have unanticipated downstream ramifications for other cases that are materially different from this one, and implications for statutes that… [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 1:08 pm
On 29 January 2024 Mrs Justice Collins Rice handed down judgment in Blake & Fox [2024] EWHC 146 (KB). [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 10:03 am
" (Webster's 3d New Internat. [read post]
14 Jan 2024, 9:05 pm
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “heterogeneity” as “the quality or state of consisting of dissimilar or diverse elements. [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 7:35 am
” The court began with Merriam-Webster’s definitions, “both of which lack specificity and may be difficult to comprehend”: carbon neutral means (1) “having or resulting in no net addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere” or (2) “counterbalancing the emission of carbon dioxide with carbon offsets. [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 6:00 am
“As merchants look at [friendly fraud], they’re seeing it become a bigger part of their overall costs,” Mike Lemberger, senior vice president, regional risk officer for North America at Visa, told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster. [read post]
11 Jan 2024, 7:30 pm
At least five dictionaries—the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, Webster’s Dictionary for Students, Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary, the Clear and Simple Thesaurus Dictionary, and the Dictionary of Costume—have been removed, according to a list shared by PEN America, which sued the district last May, alleging violations of the First and 14th amendments. [read post]
11 Jan 2024, 5:28 am
When you were a kid, blooming into puberty, did you and your friends ever sit down with a Merriam-Webster unabridged dictionary to look up words adults told you you weren’t supposed to say? [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 12:05 pm
Dwight MacDonald, The String Untuned: A Review of the Third Edition of Webster's New International Dictionary, New Yorker (1964). [read post]
6 Jan 2024, 7:11 pm
Thus, my explanation of how the January 6 attack fits any plausible definition of "insurrection" (including Steve's own preferred definition from the 1828 Webster's dictionary) remains unrefuted. [read post]
6 Jan 2024, 5:12 pm
Webster's 1828 Dictionary online defines "rebellion" as being "An open and avowed renunciation of the government to which one owes allegiance; or the taking of arms traitorously to resist the authority of lawful government; revolt. [read post]
6 Jan 2024, 3:19 pm
He relies on a definition of "insurrection" from the 1828 edition of Webster's Dictionary:' A rising against civil or political authority; the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of a law in a city or state. [read post]
