foilage

[Mark Mandel]

Sounds like it, but it could be a misreading, a slip of the eye.

And FWIW, "foil" << Lat. "folium" 'leaf'.

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Mark Mandel

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Lynne Murphy <m.l.murphy at sussex.ac.uk>
wrote:

> A friend who writes a plant-related blog
> <http://plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com/> wrote me to ask whether
> 'foilage' for 'foliage' is an eggcorn.  I'd say 'yes', but do others
> agree?
>
> Ta,
> Lynne
>
> Dr M Lynne Murphy
> Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language
> Arts B135
> University of Sussex
> Brighton BN1 9QN
>

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