twat+oogle

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Mar 18 03:09:33 UTC 2005


At 9:27 PM -0500 3/17/05, Wilson Gray wrote:
>I've never heard it and, fortunately, never used it, either. As a
>child, I would "read" words that I didn't know by breaking them apart
>into pieces that I could, to a certain extent, understand. As a
>consequence, I spent much time vaguely wondering what
>"[[sun][dries]]" were. Neither other kids nor even adults seemed to
>know.
>
>-Wilson

And the reverse eggcorn is also possible: why do they charge so much
for those sundried ['s^ndri:d] tomatoes anyway?

Larry



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