latest Mark Peters on eggcorns

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Aug 9, 2006, at 6:57 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:

> On 8/9/06, William Salmon <william.salmon at yale.edu> wrote:
>> In honor of the attention given to eggcorns in this higher education
>> piece, I give a particularly juicy eggcorn:
>>
>> pustule > pus jewel
>
> That's a beaut. Just think, if this had been noted on Language Log a
> few years ago, we might all be referring to "pus jewels" instead of
> "eggcorns"...

indeed.  wonderful.

now ben and i have *both* added an entry to the database.  ben got
his in a few seconds (literally) before mine.  now to negotiate...

arnold

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