Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Vowels in an Uproar The one thing I noticed right away from watching a bit of today's commission hearings on the 9/11 attacks was that everybody seemed to be pronouncing the arch-villain's first name as Usama. Nobody, however, took the equally appropriate step of referring to the current occupant of the White House as Bosh. bosh, n. Absurd or foolish talk; nonsense [1830-35; Turkish: empty;    popularized from its use in the novel Ayesha (1834), by British author James J. Morier (1780-1849)] - Random House Unabridged Dictionary 6:35:27 PM