Eggcorn

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:31 AM -0700 7/4/09, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>On Jul 4, 2009, at 9:14 AM, i wrote:
>
>>>
>>>but "give free rain" does occur: ...
>
>Ron Butters points out (correctly) that it can be hard to say whether
>these are eggcorns or simple spelling confusions.
>
unless the "these" includes free rein/rain/reign chicken, in which at
least part of what's going on is eggcornish reanalysis.

LH

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