today's slip of the tongue

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

NPR news announcer Nora Raum, on Morning Edition Sunday today,
referred to
   Turmekistan

(by the way, it took me some time to find the spelling of her name.
she pronounces her family name with an /a/, as if it were spelled
Rahm, or possibly Rom or Romm.  eventually, i found the NPR
"personalities" list.  thank goodness she spells it with an initial R.)

arnold

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