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Re: No Spam...Radio
- Subject: Re: No Spam...Radio
- From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 00:53:27 -0500
Bill O'Neill wrote:
> "Expletive deleted" started with Watergate? Interesting. I wonder how
> language was redacted prior to that.
Well, the expression may have been used when language was redacted in a
transcript, but it was the Watergate transcripts that made it a popular
colloquialism.
Funny, just yesterday, while conferring with opposing counsel in a lawsuit
about redacting a trial exhibit, we wondered whether anyone other than
lawyers ever use the word "redact." And today, we have an answer.
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