<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td style='font: inherit;'><P>I could have sworn that the original post was "thing" as opposed to "think." I deleted the original posts, so i cannot go back and check. But i think you may have something there, joel. I'm in the "think" corner.</P>
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<P><BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 4/30/08, Joel S. Berson <I><Berson@ATT.NET></I></B> wrote:<BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Joel S. Berson <Berson@ATT.NET><BR>Subject: Re: "thing/think" [was: on the eggcorn beat]<BR>To: ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU<BR>Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 3:19 PM<BR><BR><PRE>---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
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Do I hear two generational divides within one lifetime?
Joel
At 4/30/2008 01:53 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>At 41, this is the first time I've heard that "think" is the
correct
>choice. I don't think it's worth trying to change, and I think I
would
>use "thing" even if writing for public consumption. BB
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>On Apr 30, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>>I grew to the age of about eighteen believing that "another
_thing_
>>coming" was inexplicably the correct idiom.
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>> My personal explanation, IIRC, was that the "thing" was
whatever
>>would change your mind.
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>> JL
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