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A fact from Bertiespeak appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 April 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Bertie Ahern speaks Bertiespeak?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/April.

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How do Prescottisms, Bertiespeak and Dubyaisms compare?

Perhaps there could be a generic article on 'Notable Political MangleLanguagers' (a descriptive nonce word). Jackiespeel (talk) 15:13, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sources, sources… —innotata 17:01, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Prescottisms - eg [1] and Dubyaisms [2]: there are no dout other MangleLanguagers. Jackiespeel (talk) 16:36, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One more mention

I couldn't find a way to include it. The Munster Express. "The opener was a right lulu, or a lula a la Bertie-speak, who runs a posh shop for fuller-figure women but she hates fat and calls her customers, bullets, bouncy castles and no-hopers." (Fat Clothes section, discussing Mary Portas and the opening episode of Mary Queen of Shops, By Liam Murphy. Published on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 at 2:29 pm). --can dle •wicke 14:11, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]