Can a have an A, men?

Rex W. Stocklin listcatcher at REXSTOCKLIN.COM
Wed Feb 4 21:48:41 UTC 2009


>BTW, it's usually "navel-gazing", with no "r", pseudo-academically
>known as omphaloskepsis. Eggcorn here?

Oh you nutty lexicogs, always looking for a spook around every, um,
eggcorn. Nope I meant it, as wordplay. As in harvesting my stash of
naval lint. Umbiliculture, praps? Or Omphaloponics?

Conversely, could being at sea be called naval gazing?

Rex

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