Gathering Eggcorns

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

> "wheelbarrel."

Took me a couple of years of living in Saint Louis before I was f'sho
that a _wheelbarrel_ ['hwiL,b&@l and a wheelbarrow were the same
thing.

It's easy to imagine ways in which a barrel could be made by some
random tinkerer into a wheelbarrel and then later redesigned into a
steel thing for industrial manufacture and use.

But how would you make a "barrow" - WETF that is! - iinto a
wheelbarrow? You got me, there!
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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