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Paying our `final respects' to the language of death
By Nathan Bierma
"On Language"
Chicago Tribune
January 10, 2007

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Last week, along with many other Grand Rapidians, I lined up along the motorcade route to pay my respects as President Gerald R. Ford's funeral procession passed by.

Then I wondered, how do you "pay your respects"? What exactly are "respects," and how do you "pay" them?

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