Comments on: politicals http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/politicals/ A blog mostly about language Fri, 24 May 2013 00:07:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: h.s. gudnason http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/politicals/#comment-36743 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:41:48 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11850#comment-36743 It was in 1979 that I first encountered the substantive “religious” to refer to clerics, priests, nuns, etc.; I found the usage very odd. But now, as the year draws to a close, a billboard along my drive to work annually solicits funds for a charity with an exhortation to “support the retired religious.”

It still looks odd to me.

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