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From: "Jack Gruschow" <>
Subject: Re: [NZ] Non Gen. Help with grammar
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:10:30 +1300
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You left out my favorite. An eight letter word starting with B and ending
with T
Jack Gruschow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shirley Arabin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [NZ] Non Gen. Help with grammar


>a misrepresentation
> deceiving
> deluding
> bluffing
> circumventing
> hocus pocus
> pettifogging - this is good one
> a ruse
> a machination
> an artifice
> disguise
> masquerade - as in "superfluous verbiage masquerading as fact"
> mockery
> sham
> swindle
> then there are few specials -
> guilery (using guile)
> coggery (trick or deception)
> brummagem (a cheap imitation)
>
> I would suggest that the consultant has padded out his report with dubious
> or untruthful facts in order to bulk it up to justify his fee; and to
> obscure and confuse. The problem often is that the people whom the report
> was prepared for probably are as confused as you are but will not admit
> it.
> If it is something you are able to make submissions on then comment on
> every sentence that is unclear or inaccurate.
> We have just had a proposal for a huge subdivision circulated by the
> Council to close residents and hundreds have made submissions against it -
> mainly about the added traffic to already congested streets.
> Shirley
>
>
> Subject: [NZ] Non Gen. Help with grammar
>
>
>> I am look for a word that is better than "misleading" and feel that a
>> word such as "obscuficate" should work, however neither of my
>> dictionaries help.
>>
>> Murray Reid
>> Howick
>
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