shoefiti
n.— «
Shoefiti…Beginning last fall, I started sending “Street Light Outage” reports to Xcel
whenever I spotted a pair of shoes on lines in our fair city.
» —“Shoefiti” by Ed Kohler in Minneapolis Mpls—Minneapolis Issues Forum June 27, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Carrie Ann and her cousin Danielle from Minneapolis, Minnesota, wonder about the pronunciation of the word rhetoric. Is the stress on the first syllable or the second? This is part of a complete episode.
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