Malapropism (?)
Charles Doyle
cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Wed Nov 15 13:45:24 UTC 2006
This morning an NPR newscaster, in reference to the sentencing of another Enron executive, said that the felon "helped perpetuate fraud." I assume he was misreading "perpetrate." I think that mistake is rather common, but I somehow keep expecting more from those NPR high-brows!
--Charlie
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