[Ads-l] Hypercorrection? Heard on TV

[Laurence Horn]

Maybe they thought “hella” was the feminine form and they wanted something more masculine.

> On Nov 18, 2020, at 10:30 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> "It's going to get _hello_ crazier in here."
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> But it could be that I misheard it. Or it could be just a tip of the slung.
> 
> Youneverknow.
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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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