hayneous

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Sep 4 17:57:05 UTC 2006


>Lt. Gen. Tom McInerny (ret.) in Fox News says "hayneous" for
>"heinous."  More than 10,000 raw Googlits for the spelling
>"heinious."

You mean to tell us the adjective isn't derived from "heinie"?

LH

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