[Ads-l] popular eggcorn for poplar

[Laurence Horn]

> On Mar 26, 2015, at 11:14 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sorry, I am confused. Are you replacing "nuclear" BY "nuclear", or
> "nuclear" FOR "nuclear"?...
> 
> DanG

Oops.  My Mail system seems to have hypercorrected "nucular" on me.  (It just tried doing so again, but I caught it.)  I'll really have to disable the auto"correct" feature, even though I'll miss some of the very silly ones it keeps trying to impose on me...

LH
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> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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>> Subject:      Re: popular eggcorn for poplar
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>> It's that -(c)ular adjectival juggernaut again, as seen earlier in the =
>> replacement of "nuclear" by "nuclear" (and, to a lesser extent in that =
>> of "cochlear" by "cocular"), sponsored by "ocular", "jocular", =
>> "spectacular", "vernacular", "particular", "muscular", and by extension =
>> non-velar examples like "modular" et al.=20
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>>> On Mar 26, 2015, at 2:46 AM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM> =
>> wrote:
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>>> I have heard two people recently pronounce "poplar" as "popular." =
>> Nothing too surprising, but it's not in the Eggcorn database. BB
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