He famously mocked the idea of American exceptionalism, deriding her as indistinct from Britain or Greece.

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Fowler, writing wisely on the topic over 70 years ago, did not think it even worth deriding.

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Fine for the accountants, but what about for the workers who kept their jobs, people used to deriding their pre-merger rivals?

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Many thrive on correcting or deriding content published in newspapers and magazines.

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Labels are a way of deriding others or pumping up ourselves.

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Instead of deriding the eBook as a profit-killer, why not unite our old ideas of reading alone in quiet rooms with the vast potential created by new technology?

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And too often those same advocates take a pro-corporate view on education, deriding teachers and teachers unions instead of working with teachers and unions to create real, sustainable reform.

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