[Ads-l] inde-fatigue-able

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Oct 26 14:04:52 UTC 2016


Kellyanne Conway, the T---p's campaign manager, also says "in dee fatigue a
bull."

JL

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > That's how a top CNN anchor (really) pronounces "indefatigable."
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> I used to use that pronunciation, myself. But, unluckily, no one was paying
> me to do it.
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> Sad on me.
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