Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn"

David Bowie db.list at PMPKN.NET
Wed Feb 11 14:46:17 UTC 2009


From:    Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>

> Give us some good ole IPA or SAMPA or XSAMPA and demonstrate its
> usefulness for teaching phonetics for kids.  Show English
> freindliness.  Show email friendliness.  Show capitalization and
> punctuation friendliness.  Use m-w.com speaker's accent.  Here's a
> good sentence to use that I made up containing all 40 USA English
> phonemes.

Goalposts?

Check.

Moved?

Check.

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David Bowie                               University of Central Florida
     Jeanne's Two Laws of Chocolate: If there is no chocolate in the
     house, there is too little; some must be purchased. If there is
     chocolate in the house, there is too much; it must be consumed.

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