Is something sinister afoot?

From the state that brought you "Vote Early, Vote Often" comes a quasi-scandal over ticket sales. Apparently the Fighting Illini refuse to say who they gave their best seats to.

"Illinoisans have the right to assume something sinister's going on because we have proven over and over again that that's how things get done in this state."

Anybody else curious to know how many S's are pronounced in "Illinoisans?"

USC, as a private institution, is immune to most of these inquiries (though as a non-profit, coaches annual salaries are revealed a couple years after the fact). Too bad -- it would be interesting to know if anybody on the Coliseum Commission got tickets to the big game.

Comments

[weinst]

only the last s is pronounced in that word. In "Illinois" no s is pronounced.

[Adam Rose]

Makes sense ... there was a Disneyland event mentioned in this blog a couple days ago where a media rep repeatedly pronounced the "s" in Illinois. The Illini video department bristled a little bit.