Stump the band

[Conrad Heiney]

I assume the Chairman was saying "under the civilized nations of the world" or a very similar phrase, and that the CNN transcriptionist was very tired. 

A similar garble on record is a news story that referred to a person's description of Newt Gingrich as "sweet and generous". This was a surprise because sweetness is not one of Mr. Gingrich's outstanding qualities. The correct quote turned out to be 'sui generis'. 

Or perhaps Mr. Arafat is justifiably in search of a new barber?

Conrad

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 07:16:36AM -0700, Aussie Meyer wrote:
> To: fictionary at plover.com
> Subject: Stump the band
> 
> 'Scuse me, but I don't understand a verbal reference I just found and
> thought maybe someone on the list might know what the heck it was. 
> Maybe I should be asking history people rather than language people. 
> 
> The quote is from Yassir Arafat: "We announce that we put all our humble
>                  means under the Seville of all the nations of the
>                  world in order to protect this world from the threat
>                  of blind terrorism, which threatens the international
>                  community."
> 
> The question is, what's the Seville? Why Seville?  Or do you suppose
> it's a typo for something else (it's from a CNN.com article)?

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