To the editor:
For years I have cringed, cursed and grumbled whenever someone used the noun “democrat” rather than the proper adjective “democratic.”
Republicans have spent great amounts of energy and dollars on think tanks to come up with words and phrases like “death panels” and “liberal elites” that would be repeated so often that they become accepted as fact. Refusing to use “democratic” as the appropriate adjective to describe a Democrat is one of their more subtle plays. It is particularly disheartening when supposedly literate and/or objective reporters carry on the use of “democrat” rather than “democratic.”
My small contribution to the fight is to refer to republicans with lower case “r” and Democrats with upper case “D.” As it should be.
— Agnes Pomata, Wadmalaw Island, S.C.
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