eggcorn: crash commercialism

Randy Alexander strangeguitars at GMAIL.COM
Tue Mar 6 07:56:03 UTC 2012


A friend sent this in to me:

"Crash commercialism" for "crass commercialism".  This seems to be partly
borne out of anticipating /S/ where /s/ should be.

Not in the ECDB.

http://www.google.com/search?ix=sea&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22crash+commercialism%22<http://www.google.com.hk/search?ix=sea&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22crash+commercialism%22>

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