who shot john
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.97 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I haven't been in on any of the sessions, I don't intend to get directly involved, and I'm not going to engage in any speculation about "who shot John"."
- "1979, Mr. Morris, quoted in Reauthorization of programs under the Justice System Improvement Act of 1979 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, United States General Printing Office, page 17, I really do not think it is appropriate to come up here and present to this committee or to the Congress the "who shot John" processes by which the President makes decisions."
- "A great number of the most important questions presented to our regulatory agencies have nothing to do with "who shot John.""
- "... Adjudication procedures are great for "who shot John" questions, but not for the great mass of policy issues which will come before the Board in its first few years."
- "It is hard to go back and do a who shot John and determine who is responsible for the procedures that are in effect today."
- "NOBODY REALLY cares who shot John. That's because who shot John is inherently dismissive, always used in the sense of a question that the speaker is not about to answer because it involves loathsome finger-pointing, unworthy of the fair-minded."