"parap(@)legic"

[Scot LaFaive]

I know I also insert a vowel sound there. But now that I know it's naughty,
I will continue to do so :)

Scot LaFaive


>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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>Subject: Re: "parap(@)legic"
>Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:46:36 -0400
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>I didn't see 60 Minutes, Charlie, but I have heard that pronunciation
>"quite a few," as we would say down home in Texas :-), times. The
>annoyance thereof is sufficient unto the day.
>
>[Anderson Cooper's a person?! I thought that it was a corporation:
>Anderson, Cooper & Co., Inc., LLC.]
>
>-Wilson
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>On 5/21/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> > I expect many of us noticed on "60 Minutes" last night: In several
>instances, Anderson Cooper inserted an additional syllable in the middle of
>the word "paraplegic."
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> > --Charlie
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