Aisle/isle eggcorn?

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Sun Aug 13 14:51:30 UTC 2006


On Aug 13, 2006, at 2:21 AM, neil wrote:

> http://www.asstr.org/files/Collections/Alt.Sex.Stories.Moderated/
> Year1997/38
> 18.txt

already in the eggcorn database:

   http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/282/isle/

i've added neil's example in a comment, with the note:

   Since some occurrences are likely to just be misspellings, it
would be nice to talk to some of those who use this spelling, to see
if at least some of them are thinking that the word refers to the
islands of goods in a store (or seats in a church) that you walk among.

arnold

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