"confuse for"

[Jonathan Lighter]

>  Doesn't sound particularly odd to me.

SOTA!

JL

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> "Confused it for" gets 3.2 raw Googits. Not all are relevant ("I must have
> confused it for years with milkwort") but many are. Doesn't sound
> particularly odd to me.
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> Benjamin Barrett
> Seattle, WA
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> On Jan 4, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
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> > From a journalistic website:
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> > http://www.livescience.com/11341-good-food-bad.html :
> >
> > "What a pity that most Americans have never eaten pizza and confuse it
> for
> > the junk food advertised on television. In Italy there are laws defining
> > pizza."
> >
> > With > for?  Or mistake > confuse?  Or both?
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