As members of the Boston Trinity Academy varsity girls soccer team were traveling to a playoff game earlier this week, their coach asked them a question:
Want to pray with the girls of the other team before the game?
Elizabeth Warren's inability to pronounce the name of the town of Bourne ("Bern") during a debate earlier this month wasn't just a slip of the tongue. Nor was it a gaffe in the classic sense of the term. She didn't make a mistake by misspeaking.
Instead, she looked at a word on a piece of paper that someone on her staff had given her and didn't know how to pronounce it. That word happens to be a famous place name in this state.