[Ads-l] pedestool

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jun 6 18:35:52 UTC 2020


A venerable eggcorn, also appearing as "pedastool," "petastool,"
"pedalstool," etc.

https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/297/pedastool/

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:23 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Enunciating clearly, a prominent pediatrician on CNN warns against putting
> something (figuratively) "on a pedestool."
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