[Ads-l] "transpire" = 'do'

[Dan Goncharoff]

Looks like he meant the intransitive transpired, sans we.

On Tue, Oct 3, 2023, 11:35 AM Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu> wrote:

> Looks like a speech error for transacted.
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> Gerald Cohen
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> Subject:      Transitive "transpire" = 'do'
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> From a Times report this morning on the unfolding speakership battle:
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> Speaker Kevin McCarthy said after the House G.O.P. meeting that he plans
> to rip the Band-aid off and bring the motion to vacate this afternoon. =
> =E2=80=9CMatt has planned this all along. It didn=E2=80=99t matter what
> we transpired,=E2=80=9D McCarthy said to reporters.
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> --Reporter Kayla Guo, at
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