"last stitch effort"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 21, 2004, at 9:03 AM, Orin Hargraves wrote:

> Wasn’t somebody collecting these things the other week?

the Language Loggers (me included) have been collecting these
"eggcorns" for months.

> <quote>
> I thought maybe it was the types of vibrators I was buying, so I
> decided as a
> last stitch effort to try something new.
> <endquote>
>
> There are enough hits elsewhere to suggest that many mistake this for
> “last
> ditch effort.

yes.  nice reanalysis.

arnold