[Ads-l] "repenetant"

[Herb Stahlke]

Larry, are you actually pushing indulgences?

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Aug 18, 2016, at 7:19 PM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
> >
> > In an interview on CNN today around 4:25 PM, Liegh Steinberg, a "sports
> agent and attorney", said it was crucial that Ryan Lochte be "repenetant"
> about his early-morning encounter with a gas station in Rio.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> 99 actual ghits for this (and I didn't check alternate trisyllabic
> spellings).  It's not enough to be penitent anymore, you need to be
> repenetant.  Inflation strikes again.  Maybe it's safer to be prepenitent
> to get it out of the way.
>
> LH
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