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April 26, 2018
Marian H. Ritchie
San Francisco
It would be most helpful to readers of Catholic San Francisco if a glossary of unusual words found in some of the columns was listed in the paper.
An example: George Weigel’s column “Parsing the ‘T’” (March 15) had the word “Gadarene” (“California leading the Gadarene rush over the cliff as usual”). The word Gadarene is not listed in my copy of Webster’s Dictionary.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
Editor’s note: Our in-house dictionary at Catholic San Francisco, Webster’s New World Collegiate Dictionary, 4th ed., defines “Gadarene” as an adjective for “moving rapidly and without control; headlong.” It is derived from the Gadarene swine (Luke 8:26-39) that ran into the sea after demons possessed them.
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