vaulted for vaunted

Alison Murie sagehen7470 at ATT.NET
Tue Jun 23 19:48:36 UTC 2009


Writing in the _London Telegraph_, Sean Rayment  eggcorns (ta-ta! v.)
thus:
"In direct contradiction to the view of the defence chiefs and the
government, Major Miller added that the much-vaulted British strategy
of  'winning the hearts and minds' of the Afghan people in Helmand had
failed."That is, I think this qualifies as an eggcorn, since a sort of
odd sense can be made of it.
AM

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