[Ads-l] Murphy's Law

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jun 7 18:04:55 UTC 2020


It goes along with eggcorns like "part in parcel," "by in large," "neck in
neck," "day in age," "front in center," and "one in the same."

https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/category/english/and-%c2%ab%c2%bb-inen/

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 11:00 AM Nancy Friedman <wordworking at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "Left in right" is what caught this former newspaper copyeditor's eye.
>
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, 5:07 AM James A. Landau <jjjrlandau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > http://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2020/06/06/roberts-place-margate/
> >
> > (Murphy is the Governor of New Jersey)
> >
> > "As absurd as it sounds, protesters, looters and rioters are violating
> > Murphy’s Law left in right in New Jersey, but now Attorney General Gurbir
> > Grewal is cracking down on Robert’s Place in Margate. "
> >
>

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