[Ads-l] Retrofit [re-TROFF-it]

W Brewer brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Sun Apr 5 09:52:18 UTC 2015


CNN News reader Isa Soares reports that the Large Hadron Collider's
two-year [re-TROFF-it] is complete.
     Too bad they didn't trofit it right the first time. A defective
agronosteel had a black hole in it.
(Metanalysis, re-assignment of morpheme boundary. Don't laugh, it could be
a trend.)

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