[Ads-l] popular eggcorn for poplar

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Mar 28 02:58:31 UTC 2015


On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 9:48 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> a case of hypercorrection of a perceived colloquialism to the common
> standard
>

Exactly.


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-Wilson
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