Eggcorn
Michael Quinion
wordseditor at WORLDWIDEWORDS.ORG
Thu May 24 08:36:52 UTC 2007
A subscriber sent me this message, which he had seen in a store in
Plymouth, asking if this was an eggcorn:
"DO NOT USE THE ESCALATOR IN THE ADVENT OF FIRE"
It certainly reads wrongly to me, but I suppose fire falls into the
category of "the arrival of a notable person or thing" ...
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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
E-mail: wordseditor at worldwidewords.org
Web: http://www.worldwidewords.org
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