Who'd a thunk it?

[Peter A. McGraw]

I've been hearing it for several years now.  I think the users were mostly
young people (who, of course, are still learning to talk like REAL people).

Peter Mc.

--On Wednesday, June 29, 2005 4:38 PM -0400 Wilson Gray
<wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:

> For decades, I've been using the non-word "supposably" as a jocular
> replacement for "supposedly." Today, for the first time, I heard
> someone seriously use "supposably." It was a woman with the surname
> "Zanquis" from Hartford, CT, on the Judge Judy Show.
>
> -Wilson Gray



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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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