Spoken by a Miami cop describing a situation:

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Secreted" may be funny, but it's perfectly respectable because there are
two different "secretes."

JL

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Ben Zimmer
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> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > > "He kept hurling one _explicative_ after another!"
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> > http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/517/explicative/
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> > Entered by Arnold, inspired by a 2005 ADS-L post by... Wilson!
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> WTF?! I must have been watching the very same TV show - Dr. G, Medical
> Examiner - back then. Yet, my memory is that I began to watch this
> show for the first time in my life only a couple of weeks ago! And, of
> course, I have no memory whatsoever of seeing a Miami cop tell what
> preceded a perpetrator's attempt at suicide.
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> Youneverknow.
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> -Wilson
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