[Ads-l] Spicerism

Cohen, Gerald Leonard gcohen at MST.EDU
Wed Feb 15 15:41:06 UTC 2017


This looks like a blend, aided by partial phonetic overlap of convince/conclude:

"There's nothing that would convince me that..." + "There's

nothing that would cause me to conclude that..."


Gerald Cohen





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>From the NYT: "'There's nothing that would conclude me that anything
different has changed with respect to that time period,' Mr. Spicer said in=

response to a question." Yes, well, that's easy for you to say...
DAD




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