Eggcorn? disassemble

Roger Shuy rshuy at MONTANA.COM
Wed Jun 1 02:12:24 UTC 2005


on 5/31/05 6:47 PM, Gordon, Matthew J. at GordonMJ at MISSOURI.EDU wrote:

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> I'm surprised nobody's brought this one up; maybe I missed the posting.
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> In his press conference today Pres. Bush described the prisoners at =
> Gitmo and elsewhere as  "people that have been trained in some instances =
> to disassemble, that means not tell the truth"
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Bush is doing a very good job of disassmbling the country. Take this any way
you want.

Roger Shuy



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