The 1776 Report is about the teaching of history but not one of the people on the 1776 Commission is a historian.
Larry P. Arn, Chair, is “an educator.” Vice Chair Carol Swain taught political science and law at Vanderbilt. Brooke Rollins is a lawyer. Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist. Phil Bryant is a former governor of Mississippi. John Gibbs worked for HUD. Scott McNealy is a businessman. Ned Ryan is the CEO of American Majority. Charlie Kirk is a conservative talk show host. And so on. It’s a passel of conservatives, a few of them academics, a few of those in fields adjacent to history, but no actual historians except possibly Hanson who along with being a classicist is a military historian (and a fierce reactionary).
It’s all so dumb. “Don’t teech that Murka was ever rong, teech that Murka was always nobul and inspiering.”
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Oh, a new word (for me) – passel. Very cool.
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I’m not sure where I got it…Mark Twain maybe. It’s that kind of dialect.
Merriam-Webster says, via Google: “The loss of the sound of “r” after a vowel and before another consonant in the middle of a word is common in spoken English.” In other words it’s from “parcel.”
“The spelling passel originated in the 15th century, but the word’s use as a collective noun for an indefinite number is a 19th-century Americanism.”
Seriously? You never heard it? Wow. That was a common word in my family. It’s sort of hick, I think, but my family had a lot of the Hee Haw in them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English
Not a thing over here Inknlast. Then again, NZ was colonised a lot later than the USA and accents in colonies tend to be strongly influenced by those introduced during their founding (so I read somewhere in my youth).
I heard “passel” on The Beverly Hillbillies . Also “varmint” and “wet fer” and “seement pond”.
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I just heard someone saying “critters” on CNN, when talking about “draining the swamp”. It’s such a good word, and can only be said in an American accents. I tried saying it and sounded wrong.
Scottish equivalent of “critters” is “beasties”.
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“Critters” sounds good in a Geordie accent, too.
I think critters is at its peak when said with a Texas accent, but since I don’t like Texas accents much (spent too many years in Texas), I may be wrong. I used to use the word a lot myself until I watched a play called Psychos Don’t Dream and the main character was called Critter; made me shudder enough I quit using the word.