[Ads-l] teeming metropolies

[Laurence Horn]

> On Mar 27, 2018, at 5:02 PM, Clai Rice <cxr1086 at LOUISIANA.EDU> wrote:
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> Heard on NPR today: "teeming metropolies",  rhymes with "monopolies”.

Or perhaps better rendered “metropoles” as in “processes” and other faux Greek plurals (“mattresses” anyone?).  There are actually 20 real Google hits for “teeming metropoles”, all plural, and several from presumably edited volumes.  I know, another SOTA...

LH  
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> You can hear this at the NPR website for Here & Now, March 27, first hour,
> at 25:51. The discussion topic is Uber in Asia.
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> https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510051/here-x26-now
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> The speaker is Roben Farzad, an Iranian American who moved to the US at
> age 2. He is an experienced broadcaster, currently the host of Full
> Disclosure on NPR1.
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