[Ads-l] inplausible

[Geoff Nathan]

Related, perhaps, is that I frequently see 'unpossible'. 

Always ironically (with meaning: 'I had been promised/I promised that X would never happen, even though any rational person could have predicted that it would') 

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> A CNN title card quotes somebody as using this word, so spelled.

> It's hard to Google for ("in plausible" come up too), but all the 1.7
> million raw hits can be bogus or mistyped.

> Hypercorrection? Underliteracy?

> JL

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