[Ads-l] teeming metropolies

[Dan Goncharoff]

You mean, "teeming metropoles", which I believe to be correct: is, plural
-es.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018, 5:02 PM Clai Rice <cxr1086 at louisiana.edu> wrote:

> Heard on NPR today: "teeming metropolies",  rhymes with "monopolies".
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> You can hear this at the NPR website for Here & Now, March 27, first hour,
> at 25:51. The discussion topic is Uber in Asia.
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> https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510051/here-x26-now
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> The speaker is Roben Farzad, an Iranian American who moved to the US at
> age 2. He is an experienced broadcaster, currently the host of Full
> Disclosure on NPR1.
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