'Splainin'

During Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn told her “You have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do.” The press helpfully pointed out that this was something Ricky Ricardo often said to Lucy on the 1950s I Love Lucy sitcom. Except he didn’t. The Cuban-born bandleader did once ask his wife to “splain” herself but never said she had any “’splainin’ to do.”