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Posted on December 3 at 10:22 a.m.
Did 225 really publish a "Webster's defines" letter to the editor--on semantics--this month?
Perhaps Ms. Hayes would care to borrow a thesaurus; it seems "refugee" is equated with:
alien, boat person, castaway, defector, derelict, deserter, displaced person, emigrant, escapee, evacuee, exile, expatriate, expellee, foreigner, foundling, fugitive, homeless person, leper, maroon, outcast, outlaw, pariah, prodigal, renegade, runaway, stateless person, émigré.
"Evacuee" is there, of course, but by no means my favorite. I'm having a terrible time choosing whether to call those poor souls "pariahs" or "lepers."
Ahh, semantics.
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