Exasperated for exacerbated

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Sep 2, 2014, at 8:46 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM> wrote:

> I dont see this in the Eggcorn database.
> 
> Delta Flight Rerouted After Passengers Fight Over Legroom by ABC News =
> (https://gma.yahoo.com/delta-flight-routed-due-passenger-disruption-061107=
> 123--abc-news-topstories.html):
> 
> "The flight attendant came over, and that just exasperated what was =
> going on, and then [the complaining passenger] demanded that the flight =
> land," a fellow passenger said later.

not in the ecdb, but discussed several times in the eggcorn forum, where the eggcornistas treat it as a simple classical malapropism, not as an eggcorn (there is no reanalysis in favor of greater semantic transparency).

arnold

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