more new "old sayings"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> BONUS: "is is...is"
>
> Ron Susskind to Howard Kurtz: "The fact is is, Howie, is that..."
>
> Stammer? Or straw in the wind? (It didn't sound like a classic stammer, but
> that's only my opinion.)

Well spotted! I've posted about this on Language Log (with audio):

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3452

--bgz

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