[Ads-l] Petulant > [pentulate]

W Brewer brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jul 30 01:08:03 UTC 2016


<petulant> ['pʰɛntʃulət] (speech error)

     If I heard correctly, at the DNC affair, a Reagan loyalist called
Trump [pentulate]. The day after, on an Anderson Cooper panel, he uses the
standard form <petulant>.

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