Tight-knight

[Baker, John]

        I thought for a second that the Wall Street Journal today was
using a really novel turn of phrase:

        "Cohmad [a small brokerage firm] fit into the tight-knight
culture of the bigger Madoff firm."

        Apparently an eggcorn for "tight-knit" - it's unlikely to be a
typo, anyway.  Most of the "tight knight" usages on Google are
coincidental collocations, but "tight-knight culture" produces one hit
of the same kind of error.


John Baker

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