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Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Red State, Blue State
Posted by Bob BrighamOAKLAND, Calif. -- A panel of linguists has deemed "red state, blue state, purple state" the phrase that most colored the nation's lexicon in 2004.Attendees at the annual convention of the Linguistic Society of America on Friday chose the word or phrase that dominated national discourse over the course of the last year.
"It was the best candidate for word of the year," said Dennis Preston, a professor of linguistics at Michigan State University. "It engaged the American public for the entire year. Nothing showed the bloodthirsty population-engaging election as this."
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