Eggcorn?

[Chris F. Waigl]

On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 23:47 -0500, Wilson Gray wrote:

> A while ago, a friend of mine spoke somewhat as follows:
>
> "I don't what made that jerk think that I would possibly want
> to sleep with him. That would have been a total [pAntiweist]!"
>
> I asked her how that last word was spelled. She replied:
>
> "P-A-N-T-I-E W-A-S-T-E."
>
> I asked her what that meant. She replied that it meant that said
> jerk wasn't worth the effort involved in taking off one's undies.
>

I added this to the Eggcorn Database's waist>waste entry (which becomes
much more convincing for it):
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/85/waste/

Chris Waigl

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