Fred,

That was just an example of "sort", "kind" or "ilk". The "negative connotation" was only on the part of the author of the "sentence example" that was being used there to show how the word "ilk" could be used. "Ilk" therefore could be used "just as correctly" with either a "positive" or with a "neutral" connotation as with a "negative" one.

If that "sort" or "kind" or "ilk" are actually and factually "lying and hypocritical and pov slanderous and censorious bigots", then that "sort" or that "kind" or that "ilk" actually should, IMHO, have "negative connotations", no?

"Ilk", then, in that case is most appropriate.

If you are going to edit here, Fred, you really should know the actual meaning of words, before making any such comments.

Factual accuracy and a NPOV within articles is what I am really up to, and not pov "quarreliing and fussing".

Maybe you should look in the mirror and then think about that fact and about your own self and about that "ilk" that is always trying to block, ban, and censor me, for only their own pov verses the Wiki NPOV?

Paul Vogel http://www.cosmotheism.net

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