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Antidisestablishmentarianism (listen to , ) originated in the context of the nineteenth century Church of England, where "antidisestablishmentarians" were opposed to proposals to remove the Church's status as the state church of England. The movement succeeded in England, but failed in Ireland and Wales, with the Church of Ireland being disestablished in 1871 and the Church of Wales in 1920.

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• Eastern Washington (11 March 2010)
  So Washington has a budget deficit. This is not my fault. I don't imagine it's your fault either. The state legislature, because they don't have the, uh, ability to print currency like the feds do, have to resort to something other than ...
• ______ Control (5 March 2010)
  The hubbub over Starbucks refusing to ban guns in their stores has got me thinking. Some people are upset by the fact that any old gun owner can wander in to Starbucks with their piece (that's macho lingo for a handgun), ...
• On Food Storage (2 March 2010)
  I recommend this blog post from Alan Rock Waterman. I really enjoyed it, and it never hurts to get a reminder about what your priorities are and what they should be. I am now officially convinced that I should focus less on guns and ...
• Antidisestablishmentarianism at the New Yorker? (20 February 2010)
  The language angle is antidisestablishmentarianism — the belief that church and state should not be separate. That idea had a respectable following in 1840s England. The word is sometimes advertised as the longest in English. ...
• Obama's Antidisestablishmentarianism and the Tea Partiers ... (8 February 2010)
  Antidisestablishmentarianism has too many letters. And its obscure original meaning has long been forgotten. Now it merely produces sweaty foreheads at a National Spelling Bee. Anyone who can spell such a word without taking a breath is ...

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