[Ads-l] Did Comey setup Flynn?

[Jonathan Lighter]

My experience matches Mark's.

It's been going on for at least several years - probably more. The verb is
stupidly spaced like the noun, even though the stress pattern theoretically
differs.

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 10:02 AM Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I seem to see this happening almost everywhere. A particle verb V+ space+P
> whose nominal form is a single word, V+P, is for many speakers and writers
> also becoming a single word when the verb is not inflected. And in speech
> the particle is unstressed, unlike the two-word form.
>
> Mark Mandel
> *Happy Beethoven's birthday!*
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:01 AM Galen Buttitta <
> satorarepotenetoperarotas3 at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Huh, odd. “Setup” is merely a noun for me—the verb form is “set up”.
> >
> > > On Dec 14, 2018, at 01:30, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hannity FoxNews headline 1:20 ET:
> > > "DID COMEY SETUP FLYNN?"
> > > As if "FLYNN" were a computer program to be setup?
> >
> >
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