[Ads-l] Two syntactic blends

[Wilson Gray]

Isn't the cliché "_run_ its course"?

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>
wrote:

> Here are two syntactic blends I've noticed within the past several months:
>
>
> 1) "He will let the process play its course." (spoken by Robert Costa,
> Moderator of
>
> the PBS TV program Washington Week) ---- from : "...let the process play
> out" and
>
> "...let the process take its course." (aided by the phonetic similarity of
> "play"
>
> and "take")
>
>
> 2) "You're putting yourself in risk." (spoken by a TV journalist reporting
> on
>
> raging rivers in California) ---- from: "You're putting yourself in
> danger" and
>
> "You're putting yourself at risk."
>
>
> Gerald Cohen
>
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-Wilson
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