[Ads-l] Heard: "When he _succame_ to his injuries..."

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Oct 18 22:09:00 UTC 2017


On a true-crime show, spoken by a police detective who has internalized
_succumb_ as _succome_, apparently.

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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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