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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

For You Scrabble Players: A New Obscure Word

From an upcoming paper by UCLA law professor Samuel Bray:
 This Article argues that “necessary and proper” and “cruel and unusual” are best read as instances of hendiadys. Hendiadys is a figure of speech in which two terms, separated by a conjunction, have a single complex meaning.

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