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To: BenLurkin
Residents of Oklahoma were left feeling rattled over the weekend after a strong of some 20 earthquakes as powerful as 3.5 magnitude rocked the central part of the state...

What? Strong? Rocked? Apparently the author has never felt an earthquake. Based on the butchering of our written language, I would guess he was indeed "rattled" over what he thought were "strong" earthquakes "rocking" the state.

14 posted on 02/18/2014 12:22:39 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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To: Tenacious 1

Replace ‘strong’ with ‘string’ and I suspect you’ll see what the author intended to write...


26 posted on 02/18/2014 12:56:22 PM PST by HiJinx (Borders, Language, Culture)
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