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http://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2015/nov/09/pretaliation-sebastian-coe-world-athletics-new-word-language
The thing about retaliation, as everyone knows, is that you should get it in first. And now there’s a word for that: the eminently logical “pretaliation”. The MP Paul Flynn has been having fun on Twitter by describing Seb Coe’s attempts to defend himself in advance against the report on doping in athletics as “(new word) PRETALIATION”.
November 10, 2015