Eggcorn?

[Matthew Gordon]

Was the applicant's name D. Bledsoe by any chance? I guess that would be an
ex-Patriot.


On 2/8/06 10:34 AM, "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:


>  I just read an application to a doctoral
> program from a native speaker who referred to being abroad and
> meeting "a fellow ex-patriot".
>
> Larry
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