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Number of words: 46<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a March 2 “Culturebox ,” Timothy Noah described the words humbug, poppycock, tommyrot, hooey, twaddle, balderdash, claptrap, palaver, hogwash, buncombe (or “bunk”), hokum, drivel, flapdoodle, and bullpucky as adjectives. In fact, they are nouns. \u00a0-Slate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpted from page 255 of \u2018Regret the Error\u2019 by Craig Silverman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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