[Ads-l] Heard: "by inFERence"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jul 13 00:37:22 UTC 2017


Spoken by reality-TV personality, "Dr.G: Medical Examiner." I can't recall
ever having heard a pronunciation other than "by INference," before.

Coincidentally enough, the doc is a native of StL, though she's some twenty
years younger than I am.

-- 
-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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