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09/20/2009

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It's the word filibuster that has its roots in piracy. It's from a Dutch word that's usually transliterated into English as freebooter. Another word for pirate.
(http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976726032)

Cloture means exactly what you'd think: closure. It was borrowed from the French word clôture, which was an abbreviation of the OLD French word closture. They dropped the s, we shunned the t. Otherwise, le mot juste.

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