mandate (Latin) = man(hand) date(to give - pronounced "dahtay") = "to give
hand".
In a recent discussion regarding polticians' proclivities in claiming a
"mandate" for this or that agenda, someone noted that a mandate was merely
another way of saying they were "palming off" the public, to put it politely.
Phil
3-parts mad, 2-parts puzzled
Phil Graham
p.graham who-is-at qut.edu.au
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/8314/index.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Another damned fat book, eh, Mr Gibbon? Scribble, scribble, scribble, eh,
Mr Gibbon?" - The Duke of Gloucester to Edward Gibbon upon the publication
of "Decline and Fall".
----------------------------------------------------------------------------