Yankee eggcorn

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Mon Sep 22 04:06:59 UTC 2008


Derek Jeter to Peter Gammons on ESPN just now (after the last game at Yankee
Stadium): "The fans here never seem to amaze me."

The Eggcorn Database already has "never seize(s) to amaze":

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/351/seize/

...but Google suggests "never seem(s) to amaze" is about as common.

http://www.google.com/search?q=never-seize|seizes-to-amaze
http://www.google.com/search?q=never-seem|seems-to-amaze


--Ben Zimmer

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org



More information about the Ads-l mailing list