Eggcorn: *mooted* > *muted*

[Damien Hall]

Dear Arnold

> added to the ecdb entry for moot > mute:

>   http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/41/mute/

Thanks for adding it to the Database!  But, clicking on the link from there to
the original story, just out of curiosity, I find that someone at MSN Sport has
noticed and changed it back, rather than glorying in the endlessly creative
possibility of error, as they should have done.  Could you add a note to that
effect, as well?  (To the effect that it was an eggcorn and has been corrected,
not to the effect that they should embrace their copy-writers' creativity.)

In future, when I spot eggcorns on the Web, I'll make a PDF of them.  That's why
I'm copying this to the whole list:  a cautionary lesson?

Damien Hall
University of Pennsylvania

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