"Highbred" eggcorn

Alice Faber faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU
Mon Mar 13 15:53:45 UTC 2006


I don't normally spot this one in the wild, but here's a good one, from
a posting to alt.coffee about the prospects of coffee cultivation in
Florida:

"The field is set up using highbred dwarf trees growing along a vine
configuration to support irrigation, and realization."

(I'm assuming the poster, a coffee roastmaster extraordinare, meant
"hybrid"...)
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