Because in that gap, Trump and others can more easily backfill with ever-changing excuses for his behavior.Īnd if recent history is any guide, those excuses will be filled with misspellings of their own - intentional or not - that make folx look downright Shakespearean.
The fact that the dictionary definition of espionage, which many people all of a sudden wanted to learn about, doesn’t square with the circumstances surrounding the boxes taken from Mar-a-Lago is a problem, though. Or the so-called Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2021, which bans transgender athletes from competing and, if it actually became law, would harm women and girls both in and out of sports.) (See also: The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which miiii ght help reduce inflation, but is really all about climate change, health care, and taxes. Our country has a proud tradition of naming bills after the things we want them to be about, not necessarily what they are about. The lookup surge is logical: The unsealed search warrant for Mar-a-Lago revealed that the FBI’s investigation was into Trump’s possible violation of the Espionage Act of 1917, and espionage is - in 2022, anyway - an uncommon enough word that the OED characterizes its usage as tending “to be restricted to literate vocabulary associated with educated discourse,” its frequency being on par with words like surveillance, assimilation, and tumult. » READ MORE: As the FBI raids his home, Trump turns to a familiar playbook to divide America Until we get evidence that Donald Trump is an actual Russian spy, that definition doesn’t seem too applicable to what the Justice Department was searching for.
But when dictionary fans got there, they were doubtlessly disappointed by Merriam-Webster’s definition: “the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company.” A bunch of folks were annoyedly distressed when they went to their dictionaries this week - and not just because they learned the Oxford English Dictionary had newly added entries for folx (the world’s dumbest intentional misspelling) and annoyedly (which should have been there already).Īfter the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago, lookups for espionage surged.
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