Reaction to redact

Last week’s Redaction edition caused some amusement and thanks to all of you who responded so encouragingly. Some were perplexed and of course some web browsers make the ebulletin look different. Sue Gordon tells me she first came across the term in America. Company employees were being 'redacted' and this meant people were being made redundant or being fired - in other words the company was downsizing. I just thought of it in connection with UK politician’s expenses receipts. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ defines redact as “to make ready for publication; edit or revise” and http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/redacted “to obscure or remove (text) from a document prior to publication or release”