Spoken by a football-game commentator

[Alice Faber]

Laurence Horn wrote:
> By a different football announcer (during the Giants-Lions game, a
> couple of minutes ago), after the Lions decided to go for it on 4th
> and 1 instead of kicking a field goal, but then get call for a
> five-yard false start penalty:
>
> "Well, that makes *that* a mute point."
>
> So another for the moot point-->mute point eggcorn files, if we
> needed any more.

I should have known Larry would beat me to it with this one; I was
eating a late lunch at this point in the game.

So, I'll just add that the [j] offglide to the /m/ was quite strong.

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