Spoken by a Miami cop describing a situation:

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/27/2012 07:07 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>"Secreted" may be funny, but it's perfectly respectable because there are
>two different "secretes."
>
>JL
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>On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: Spoken by a Miami cop describing a situation:
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> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Ben Zimmer
> > <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> > > Poster: Â  Â  Â  Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>
> > > Subject: Â  Â  Â Re: Spoken by a Miami cop describing a situation:
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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!"
> > >
> > > http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/517/explicative/
> > >
> > > Entered by Arnold, inspired by a 2005 ADS-L post by... Wilson!
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> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0508B&L=ADS-L&D=0&I=-3&P=10686
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> > > --bgz
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> > > Ben Zimmer
> > > http://benzimmer.com/
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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.

Excuses, excuses.

Joel

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