[Ads-l] Heard on Forensic files:
Baker, John
JBAKER at STRADLEY.COM
Wed Feb 7 14:30:34 UTC 2018
I’ll tell you who else knows: medical professionals. It isn’t clear from Wilson’s quote whether the speaker is a medical professional, in which case this is an error by the show, or a police officer (who is not a medical professional) or a non-medical civilian, for whom this might be a plausible error.
John Baker
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jonathan Lighter
Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 8:48 PM
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Subject: Re: Heard on Forensic files:
Of course. But who else knows that?
JL
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 7:43 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com<mailto:hwgray at gmail.com>> wrote:
> "She was lying on her back, when she was stabbed, _in the prone position_."
>
> He meant to say, "in the _supine_ position," of course.
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