go-to = 'frequently or most commonly chosen' PLUS "strategery" gets serious (UNCLASSIFIED)

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Fri Aug 13 22:02:30 UTC 2010


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> On the same day I heard a twentysomething say, with no trace of irony,
"We
> need to change our strategery."  His interlocutor nodded, also with no
irony
> in evidence.
>

I once had a boss who would say, without guile or irony, "bring
something to frutation" (instead of "fruition").
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