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oreboredo commented on the word circumlocution
It appears described- graphically, and sarcastically- as an indispensable part of the British government bureaucracy in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit, Ch.X,"Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving- HOW NOT TO DO IT."
June 30, 2009