Malapropism (?)

[Charles Doyle]

This morning an NPR newscaster, in reference to the sentencing of another Enron executive, said that the felon "helped perpetuate fraud."  I assume he was misreading "perpetrate."  I think that mistake is rather common, but I somehow keep expecting more from those NPR high-brows!

--Charlie

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