[Ads-l] Child's misunderstanding: "the donzerly light"

[Marc Sacks]

When I was a child, I mistook "point of view" for "point of you," so I
figured I must have a "point of me."

I also thought that if a book could have a frontispiece, it could also have
a backispiece, but I never found one.

Marc Sacks

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:43 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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> RE: pullet surprise, eggcorn:  Crystal's Encycl. of Lg. 2nd ed. p.408
> sidebar, inter alia:
> Mother: Don't argue!
> Hugh (age 3): I don't argme.
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