Can you say "Mesopotamia"?

[Jonathan Lighter]

>From Neil Postman's _Amusing Ourselves to Death_  (and wotta way to go!)
(N.Y.: Viking Penguin, 1985), p. 54:

"Of [George] Whitefield [1714 -1770, American evangelist] it was said that
by merely pronouncing the word 'Mesopotamia,' he evoked tears in his
audience."

Cf. "moist." ( A different kind of tears, to be sure.)

JL

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