Eggcorn?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 2/20/06, Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at ohio.edu> wrote:
>
> Snowclones?  Have I missed something in the six months I've been away from
> the list?

It's a LanguageLogism. Here's a useful summarizing post from Mark Liberman:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002806.html


--Ben Zimmer

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