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Trump criticizes 'ridiculous' ruling blocking his sanctuary cities order

Apr 26, 2017, 8:40 am CDT

Lawyer accused of billing over 24 hours in a day suspended; but official said others were worse

Apr 26, 2017, 8:00 am CDT

Republican students sue UC Berkeley for rescheduling speech by Ann Coulter

Apr 26, 2017, 7:00 am CDT

Judge blocks Trump order denying funds to sanctuary cities

Apr 25, 2017, 3:57 pm CDT

A cellphone interrupts oral arguments at the Supreme Court, but the justice didn't answer

Apr 25, 2017, 3:46 pm CDT

Michael Flynn might have broken the law, House oversight leaders say

Apr 25, 2017, 2:09 pm CDT

Dewey leaders won't testify in retrial for alleged scheme to mislead law firm lenders

Apr 25, 2017, 11:05 am CDT

Murdered woman's Fitbit data inconsistent with husband's story, police say

Apr 25, 2017, 10:46 am CDT

Meet 10 women making an impact in legal technology

Apr 25, 2017, 9:55 am CDT

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Question of the Week

What's the word you're most worried about mispronouncing?

Law books are full of words we rarely speak. Even if they studied Latin in school, litigators can be unsure how to pronounce nici prius, ratio decidendi and sine die, to name three troublesome phrases Bryan A. Garner cites in A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage.

Legal Latin is not the only courtroom language that sends lawyers to the dictionary. Case names and place names can be confounding. And the ABA Journal recently noted that Justice Elena Kagan in oral arguments cited an “antecedent” clause and pronounced the word as “an-TESS-a-dent.” Ann O’Connell of the Solicitor General’s office opted to carry on pronouncing antecedent more conventionally as “ant-a-SEED-ent.”

This week we ask: What’s the word you’re most afraid of mispronouncing? And if the judge does not use the standard pronunciation, which precedent do you follow?

Answer in the comments.

Read the responses to our last question: Have you taken a bar exam in more than one state?

Featured answer:

Posted by LarieBee: “I took and passed the entire Michigan bar exam in 2013 and the entire Illinois bar exam in 2016. Michigan’s covered more topic areas and truly focused on state specific law, while Illinois’ was quite general, even in the essays. For these reasons, Michigan’s was more difficult, even factoring in the experience I gained while clerking for a Michigan state court prior to taking Illinois’ exam.”

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