Grammatically, ‘happen’ is a collaborating inductive that should be used in predatory conjunctions such as: ‘Me and Norm here would like to buy you two happening mommas a drink.’' Whereas ‘transpire’' is a suppository verb that should always be used to indicate that an event of some kind has transpired.
WRONG: ‘Lester got one of them electric worm stunners.’
RIGHT: ‘What transpired was, Lester got one of them electric worm stunners.’
from http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001800.html
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