Eggcorns?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Oct 5 02:51:59 UTC 2007


" ... _eyes glazed over_ ..."

"His _eyes glassed over_."

2640 raw Google hits

"My _eyes glossed over_."

890 raw Google hits; a mixture of obvious, IMO, eggcorns, with other stuff.

Both "glassed over" and "glossed over" replace "glazed over," but
"glossed over" is more often used in other, sometimes less-obvious,
senses:

"His _eyes glossed over_ Midori and shifted to Yuriko."

-Wilson
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