[Ads-l] PEOTUS

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 11:18 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> The POTUS-elect acronym is news to me, in a FoxNews headline, but seems to
> have been around for a while, sporadically.
>

Possibly because the pronunciation is not obvious. I suggest pronouncing it
with the _eo_ of "people": "peetus."


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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