Eggcorn: foilage

[Lynne Murphy]

We just discussed the eggcorn status of 'foilage' 5 months ago with various
citations of it.  (I don't think it works to provide a link to my archive
search, does it?)

Lynne



--On Saturday, October 11, 2008 10:00 pm -0500 Jim Parish
<jparish at SIUE.EDU> wrote:

> Laurence Horn wrote:
>> At 8:41 PM -0500 10/11/08, Jim Parish wrote:
>> > Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>> > <snip>
>> >>  2. Something that foils
>> > <snip>
>> >>  I have a serious thrist for a CONSTITUIONAL amendment that will
>> >>  force persons of foilage to report to the nearest nucular power
>> >>  plant for physcho-assessment and debreeding?so the re-programming
>> >>  can begin.
>> >>  (http://rachellucas.com/index.php/2008/08/06/the-chemtrails-serve-
>> >>  many -masters/ )
>> >
>> > "[P]ersons of foilage" looks to me like a reference to Greens; if so,
>> > this would be another example of the original "foilage/foliage"
>> > confusion.
>> >
>> I don't know.  Given the loony context, it seems
>> equally likely that it refers to folks wearing
>> tin foil helmets that I think are supposed to be
>> designed either to shield the wearer from signals
>> or to attract them, I forget which.
>
> Good point. More context might help.
>
> Jim Parish



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