[Ads-l] Heard: "allege" > _allegate_

[Alan Knutson]

Sorry, but it sounds as scandalous as Watergate!


On 3/2/2017 11:21 AM, Joel Berson wrote:
> Why not a simpler form of nouning --
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> Q. What other alleges were there?
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> Joel
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>        From: Margaret Winters<mewinters at WAYNE.EDU>
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> What a wonderful back formation!
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> MARGARET E WINTERS
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> Steve Wilkos Show:
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> Q. What other allegations were there?
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> A. Well, she also _allegated_ that I took our children out and buried them
> in a ditch,              then dug them up, again.
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