rhymes with urinal

[Jonathan Lighter]

CNN's Karl Penhaul is covering the rescue of the miners in Chile. He "holds
a bachelor's degree with honors from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh,
Scotland and a master's degree in Latin American Politics from The London
School of Economics."

But that didn't stop him from saying that the miners will be checked, among
other things, for
/ IntEst 'ai n at l / ailments.

Yes, that's  intest-EYE-nal. The OED does not list it as a possibility.

JL


"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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