[Ads-l] "Are democracy is clearly in jeopardy."

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Sep 8 02:23:26 UTC 2015


Shouldn't that be,

"Hour democracy in danger"?

Probably not. People who pronounce "our" as "are" also pronounce "hour" as
"are."

[I'm talking about you, Noam Chomsky.]

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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.
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