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August 13, 2009

Non Sequitur

Filed under: Words — Administrator @ 7:31 am

At Answers.com they say:

n.
1.    An inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premises or evidence.
2.    A statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it.
[Latin nōn sequitur, it does not follow : nōn, not + sequitur, third person sing. present tense of sequī, to follow.]

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Yup. Knew that. But I am surprised to learn after all these years that I was spelling it wrong!! I had thought that it ended with an “-or”!!

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