[Ads-l] prerogative

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Feb 16 21:17:00 UTC 2017


On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The Oxford Dictionaries (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/
> definition/us/prerogative <https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/
> definition/us/prerogative>) say that “prerogative” starts out with a /pr/
> sound.
>

To quote the renowned Stan Freberg in _The Great Pretender_,

"That’s *right*! That’s *right*!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCBTddTK1gc
0:29

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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.
-Mark Twain

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