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Misspoke: The long and winding road to becoming a political weasel word

By Valerie M. Fridland, Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno

Politicians have long used the phrase ‘I misspoke’ when backpedaling for verbal inaccuracies or blunders. Now it’s used as a euphemistic recasting of lying as an inadvertent mistake.

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