"PERmitted"

[Jonathan Lighter]

And how.

(It's decades since I heard anybody say the above.)

JL


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> Yesterday afternoon on MSNBC, Jane Kleeb of the environmental group Bold
> Nebraska, being interviewed by Alex Wagner, in the course of about 15
> seconds twice pronounced "permitted" with primary stress on the first
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> It sounded very odd to me--but is it to others?
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