Ex-patriots or expatriates

[garygrunson]

From the NY Times


http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/when-spell-check-cant-help-14/


I think we knew this anyway...



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The Mark Cross name had some glamour attached to it; it was owned by Gerald Murphy’s family — Murphy and his wife, Sara, ex-patriots living in France in the ’20s, were the subject of the Calvin Tomkins biography “Living Well Is the Best Revenge.’’
This was a new one for me. “Ex-patriots” would be people who no longer love their country. Those who no longer live in their country are “expatriates.”

 

[PhilipDT]

I was expecting a football pun.

 

[tez]

Thanks Gary, I enjoyed that.