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  • noun Common misspelling of verbiage.

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  • The most revealing moment happened earlier, when Palin was asked about Obama's attack on McCain's claim that the fundamentals of the economy are sound. "Well," Palin said, "it was an unfair attack on the verbage that Senator McCain chose to use, because the fundamentals, as he was having to explain afterwards, he means our workforce, he means the ingenuity of the American people. And of course that is strong, and that is the foundation of our economy. So that was an unfair attack there, again, based on verbage that John McCain used." This is certainly doing rather more than mere talking, and what is being done is the coinage of "verbage." It would be hard to find a better example of the Republican disdain for words than that remarkable term, so close to garbage, so far from language.

    From "A Critic's Notebook: Verbage: The Republican war on words" by James Wood

    The New Yorker, October 13, 2008

    October 20, 2008