"Is, is"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I heard a thirtysomething college-educated CNN anchor use "was, is" a couple of years ago.  But I haven't heard it since.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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The use of "is, is" has been mentioned here. I've just heard a
Springer guest say, "What happened _was, is_ ..." The same
speaker (working-class Northern white?) also came up with
the eggcorn(?), "I didn't know, but I had my _suspections_."

-Wilson Gray

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