[Ads-l] Vox Article: Why Marianne Williamson=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=most famous passage keeps getting cited as a Nelson Mandela quote

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 2:30 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I notice that Vox describes Williamson's accent as "Katherine
> Hepburn-esque."
>
> Surely not. They must mean her cheekbones.
>

A lot of commentators on the first debate (on MSNBC) thought Williamson's
accent sounded "mid-Atlantic," so Hepburn is the easiest reference point.
Oddly, she didn't sound so mid-Atlantic in the second debate (on CNN).

--bgz

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