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

[Margaret Winters]

"Do" yes, but with the sense of "brought about", maybe.  Or, having looked back at the quote, maybe "transpired" as an odd usage?

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MARGARET E WINTERS
Former Provost
Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI  48202

mewinters at wayne.edu

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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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> 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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> https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/03/us/mccarthy-gaetz-speaker-news
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