A de-eggcorn?

sagehen sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Thu Aug 30 23:11:41 UTC 2007


>Does anyone realize how scarce "de-eggcorns" really are?
>
>  They require someone to notice them and then to correct them, with the
>elided second step being to give a $#!+.
>
>  Rare!
>
>  JL
>
>Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>Sender: American Dialect Society
>Poster: Wilson Gray
>Subject: A de-eggcorn?
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>
>Since Sunday, a local channel has been advertising a straight-to-cable
>movie entitled "M_o_mento." Today, I see that the title has been
>changed to "M_e_mento."
>
>-Wilson
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Maybe this is an acorn.
(Sprouted?)
AM

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