Corn rolls - eggcorn

[Wilson Gray]

FWIW, this misspelling has been around since the early '70's, seen in
the Boston Globe, along with, e.g *Duncan* Donuts, seen in the Bay
State Banner. The latter is especially egregious, IMO, given that,
even in those days, Dunkin' Donut shops were all over the place. It's
not something that you'd expect a local reporter to be familiar with
only through hearsay.

-Wilson Gray

On 9/5/05, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> Poster:       "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: Corn rolls - eggcorn
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> On Sep 5, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Damien Hall wrote:
>
> > Spotted in our (West Philadelphia) local paper, *Westside Weekly*
> > (2-8 September
> > 2005):  an African-American hair-stylist advertises that they can do
> >
> > corn rolls
> >
> > for you.
> >
> > I see that this one isn't in the Eggcorn Database yet, but by the
> > familiar
> > process of l-vocalisation it is akin to some that are.
>
> it is now:
>
>    http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/563/roll/
>
> arnold
>


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-Wilson Gray