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Dictionary.com needs help.

May 7, 2015 5:03AM PDT

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well, damn the frogs!
May 8, 2015 8:05AM PDT
Wink
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I don't get the joke about
May 11, 2015 5:53AM PDT

'needing help', if there is one.

Anyway, from the site:
Origin
1490-1500; < French < Italian razza, of obscure origin

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Maybe it's the phrasing
May 11, 2015 6:17AM PDT

One who sees the words "Origin of racism" might confuse whether it's the origin of the word or the origin of the practice. So...did the French invent the word or...maybe is it that we tend to get too analytical at times?

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Now I see. BTW the French are one of those
May 11, 2015 6:23AM PDT

people (a nation, not a race) who have always thought of France as "God's country". The Old Russians similarly, about their country. Dostoevsky has a couple of his characters mention it. Solzhenitsyn thought so. Here in the US it's relatively small groups that think so, from time to time. (Sit down, have a cup of tea, and think about it. Happy )

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Nailed it SH.
May 11, 2015 6:26AM PDT

Word or practice. I wonder what other dangers lurk out there in the land of words.