Raising [ken]

[David Bowie]

Winnowing through old emails, i came across a link to one of Michelle
Singletary's washingtonpost.com financial chats at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/06/07/DI2005060701163.html?referrer=email

About a third of the way down, i read:

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Columbia, MD: After purchasing a car from a "large reputable dealer" in
Northern Virginia, how long should it take for the dealer to produce a
title so I can register the car in Maryland?

So far, in my case, it's been over a month!!

Michelle Singletary: That's too long. Get yourself down to that
dealership and raise some cane.

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So Singletary has "raise cane", while i'd always thought it was "raise
Cain". (Both make sense in terms of providing a usable image, of
course--one raises both crops and children.)

Two questions:

1. Which of us, in terms of usage manual English, is right?

2. Whichever of us is wrong, is this an eggcorn? (I *still* haven't
grasped the nuances of the type.)

--
David Bowie                                         http://pmpkn.net/lx
     Jeanne's Two Laws of Chocolate: If there is no chocolate in the
     house, there is too little; some must be purchased. If there is
     chocolate in the house, there is too much; it must be consumed.