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I need new yorkers to be informed that neither right-wing missippi policies or John Lindsay style government working families party will work in new york city.
Suffolk Votes on Anti-Immigrant Bill Steve Perez 2007
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What we seem to have here, rather, is a haplology or "haplogy," as some linguists can't resist calling it, the process which gave us Latin nutrix in place of the predicted *nutritrix and which leads people to say missippi instead of mississippi.
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