religious tracks

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:12 PM -0400 5/7/05, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
>At 02:10 PM 5/7/2005, you wrote:
>>Here is a genuine "religious track" eggcorn from the Mississippi Standard
>>Democrat (11/25/2002)
>>(http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/865/public/news398319.html)
>>
>>  "All denominations of literature are accepted, Breland said. New Bibles,
>>religious tracks, good, used hardback or paperback religious items are
>>acceptable, Breland said. Any spiritual or religious literature is
>>accepted, however
>>racist literature is restricted from being shelved in the library, he added."
>
>And the reverse also happens:  When we had two tracks of study in our
>Linguistics department some years ago, one faculty member (a non-native
>speaker, hopefully--I can't recall) consistently called them "tracts" and
>even used that word in writing.

I've seen "tenure tract", and now that I google it I find actual
academic job announcements that specify this as one of the perks.

There's also "heating duck(s)", no relation to duck tape (which at
least has the initial t- going for it).

Larry