Another one bites the dust

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Dec 20 05:23:40 UTC 2011


Heard on the TV collegiate silly-com, "UChina, Illinois," Something like:

"Every student gets an _irreVO-cable_ F!" (Hello, forMID-able,
eKSKWIZ-ite, and ineKSO-rable! Meet your new sibling!)


Sigh! The last time that I heard this pronunciation, I was the one who
used it, ca. 1951.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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