Both Uses of
rebuttal
in
Do You Speak American?
- After Simon's book became a national best-seller, making him the arch-prescriptivist of the moment, Nunberg published a blistering rebuttal in the Atlantic Monthly, chastising "the pop grammarians who play to the galleries.†
Chpt 1
- This assault brought instant rebuttal.
Chpt 5 *rebuttal = argument in opposition
Definition:
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(rebuttal) a statement arguing against something