[Ads-l] improprietyship

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > "no appearance of improprietyship."
> >
> The speaker, David Chavez, is a former member of the New Mexico House of
> Representatives
>
> BTW, the transcript reads "impropriety." Cf. the parallel case of "bi-ism."
>
> http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/03/nday.03.html
>

 The transcript currently reads "improprietorship [SIC]." That sounds about
right:

https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20160603_100000_New_Day#start/3960/end/4020

--bgz

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