eggcorn: saddled -> straddled

[Neal Whitman]

>> http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gingrich-campaign-traveling-press-own-damn-ride-014411649.html
>> "The reporters on the bus, now straddled with an unexpected new cost,
>> fumed."
>>
>> Turns out this is a very common eggcorn -- I found recent examples
>> from such sources as Dow Jones, Reuters, the Financial Times, and the
>> New York Post. Into the database it goes:
>>
>> http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/1114/straddle/
>>
>> --bgz
>>
>> --
>> Ben Zimmer
>> http://benzimmer.com/
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>
> Are you old enough ti remember that old song, "Don't Fence Me In"? It
> had a verse,
>
> "Let me saddle my old straddle
> Underneath the western skies"
>
> --
> -Wilson

I believe it was "Let my straddle my own saddle".

Neal

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