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  • From: paxamicus AT earthlink.net
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Impeachment
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:02:23 -0400

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But it made such an excellent pun. I know what reins are. : )


On Jun 10, 2008, at 6:34 PM, Gene GeRue wrote:

No. I never said I expected Obama to reign in govt.

I try really, really hard to overlook misspellings--I make them
myself--but this one is bugging me. Unless it is to be construed as a
convoluted double entendre, one tries to "rein in" government as one
would rein in a horse. A "reign" is the time of rule of a sovereign
king or queen, or such, colloquially used for others also, such as a
president who acts as if he were a king, as in, "during the reign of
George II."
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