Fwd: eggcorn

[Joel S. Berson]

It's clearly just a mistake, since the teriyaki would have come out
to the patio to be cooked, not into the auditorium to be played.

Joel

At 12/27/2008 12:13 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>Why an eggcorn, rather than just a slip of the tongue between two
>phonologically similar loanwords?
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>Mark Mandel
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>On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:47 AM, James A. Landau
><JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:
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> > Heard on the PA system at a nursing home:
> >
> > "There will be teriyaki, uh, karaoke in the auditorium."
> >
> > This may have been a double mistake, because immediately
> afterwards two musicians walked in carrying their instruments.
> >
> >           James A. Landau
> >           test engineer
> >           Northrop-Grumman Information Technology
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> >           West Atlantic City NJ 08232 USA
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