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When Bush used the word "decider" to describe himself, instead of the more common (but frankly more cumbersome) "decision-maker," I chuckled not because I thought "decider" wasn't a word (it is, and the President used it correctly), but because I only ever hear the term in standard English on the BBC when sports reporters use the word to mean a decisive match or cricket test. So to my ears, it was as if Bush was describing himself as a game to be played--in fact, DECIDED--by OTHERS: effectively the opposite of what he meant.
