Spoken by a Miami cop describing a situation:

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > "He kept hurling one _explicative_ after another!"
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> http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/517/explicative/
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> Entered by Arnold, inspired by a 2005 ADS-L post by... Wilson!
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WTF?! I must have been watching the very same TV show - Dr. G, Medical
Examiner - back then. Yet, my memory is that I began to watch this
show for the first time in my life only a couple of weeks ago! And, of
course, I have no memory whatsoever of seeing a Miami cop tell what
preceded a perpetrator's attempt at suicide.

Youneverknow.

-Wilson

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