"Not* an eggcorn. Right?

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> still, (w)rack > wreck in "Xed with guilt" does look eggcornish, since it replaces a puzzling piece of the idiom with a piece that actually does make some sense in the context.

I had tip--of-the-tongue in mind, but I agree with you. Now that I
think about it, TOT, whether tip-of-tongue or train-of-thought,
usually blows everything up. You couldn't find an alternative that's
as close as this one is.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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-Mark Twain

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