craven/graven eggcorn?

[Wilson Gray]

I'm with you, Neil: "graven image"; "craven fool."

-Wilson


On 1/16/06, neil <neil at typog.co.uk> wrote:
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> Not sure whether this is an eggcorn; I'd always assumed the term was
> 'craven':
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> 'Perhaps there were people talking behind his back then, calling him a
> graven fool, as he had once thought Fanny Hope, but now he had learned the
> hard way.'
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> Sharyn McCrumb, 'The Resurrection Man', in Ed McBain [ed], 'Transgressions',
> Orion, London, 2005, 368
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> --Neil Crawford
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