Republican Dictionary

In Bush's State of the Union, he mentioned personal accounts seven times but private accounts zero times, which is interesting, as Katrina vanden Heuvel notes in Editor's Cut, because only a few months ago he was using both terms interchangeably.
But this was no mistake. The Republicans tested the phrase private accounts and found public support was much lower than when the same, exact, identical concept was called personal accounts. This is a good example of the right's linguistic strategy, which has resulted in the development of a veritable Orwellian Code of encrypted language.
In an effort to break this code, vanden Heuvel launched the Republican Dictionary project last November. We've had a grassroots ground swell of submissions coming in from our readers ever since.

Read the latest installment of reader definitions here:
http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7&pid=2182

And click below to add your own submissions. We're going to be collecting our favorites and publishing them as a book in the next few months so please keep them coming.
http://www.thenation.com/contact/letw