Heard in a TV ad

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Aug 7 20:51:14 UTC 2007


In a TV ad for dentistry, a 40-ish, black female speaker says:

"[Having had my teeth fixed] has made me feel much more _comfy-er_."

My WAG is that this is a morphological choke caused by appearing
before the TV camera and not something that the speaker would normally
use.

-Wilson
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