chock/chuck (it) up (to)

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Sat Sep 3 15:53:56 UTC 2011


On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
> While homophony is possible, as Arnold observes in the
> E.D. entry (sorry, but those are the initials!) [...]

Eggcornistas prefer the morphemic initialism, ECDB (or EcDb if you prefer).

--bgz

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