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Old Tue Apr 20, 2004, 05:42pm
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Originally posted by Camron Rust
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Originally posted by rainmaker

Why is this supposed to bug me? Did you think I was being sarcastic about the spelling of consensus? It comes from a similar background as "consent", not "census". It's spelled with 3 esses. Being a Quaker, I need to know these things!
Not spelling...I just used it in a grammaticlly redundant way...."consensus of opinion". Since consensus means opinion by the group and my phrase essentially meant "opinion of opinion". I figured you'd jump on that!
I see. I guess I'm not at my perceptive best today. A little distracted by life.
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