(from www.wordsmith.org)   
ipso facto (IP-so FAK-to) adverb      
     By the very fact or action.      [Latin ipso facto (by the fact itself).]
    The counterpart of this term is ipso jure, which means by reason of a particular law.
"'Spiritually, I'm a New Yorker,' [Norman Mailer] said. 'If you grow up in Brooklyn, you're a New Yorker ipso facto.'"   
   -- Colin Miner; Mailer on Bush, Obama & Writing; The Sun (New York); Jan 22, 2007.
Some 70s TV viewers might recall Archie Bunker's malapropist rendition of the expression above, "Ipso fatso..."
Monday, August 4, 2008
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