Elect
Names
Names noun - Verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument.
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When Time tried to elect the "Person of the Century" in 1999 there was criticism that too many names were Americans, and not only that, some of them were solely important to the U.S.A.
Source: Magazine / Time Magazine -
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: It's against a country's best interests to elect a man named Adam Sutler.
Source: Film / V for Vendetta -
Due to numbering errors, mistakes on the part of the historians of the times and in one case the pope-elect himself, there are some papal names (and numbers) assigned to people who never existed, or are simply wrong names for popes.
Source: Useful Notes / The Pope
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