"solacious" for consolatory

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:42 PM -0400 4/15/07, sagehen wrote:
>On ATC  (NPR Sun Apr 15) a military spokesman in Iraq, interviewed on the
>subject of  civilian casualties, spoke of paying "solacious" payments to
>families for the accidental killing or injury of their members. It came so
>trippingly off his tongue that I suppose it wasn't its premier performance.
>Has anyone heard it before?
>AM

Are you sure it wasn't "salacious"?  Maybe I'm not the only one who
finds it all pretty obscene...

LH

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