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  • Thus saying "scrapegoat" for scapegoat is epenthesis, but saying "mischievious" for mischievous is vowel epenthesis.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1 1979

  • The Progressive Media Project, a group funded by George Soros, today in the Florida Times Union, written by Angela Vasquez, pleads for The Elites of Washington to not "scrapegoat/ the "undocumented' who are only here for the American Dream.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

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  • My friends from the prison, they ask unto me,

    How good, how good does it feel to be free?

    And I answer them, most mysteriously,

    Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?

    See scapegoat.

    October 4, 2007