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Wes's avatar
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Re your discussion about the attorney general being called “General” isn’t the surgeon general called “General”?

Also per the OED it looks like the term “general” for a military leader is an abbreviation of “captain general” from the French “capitaine général” which means that it was originally the adjective and not the noun.

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Joseph Michael Levy's avatar

Will, you used the phrase “ex ante” in a conversation about Skrmetti, which is a funny coincidence because I once used that phrase in a conversation with Judge Sutton, leading to some light mockery about why on earth I would use that phrase in casual conversation.

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