"on accident" posting #3

[Barnhart]

Dumas asks how many of the 19,774 articles with "on...accident"
contained a word in the space.

Lots.  In fact I found only a few (less than 5) instances of "on
accident" which satisfied the example "I did it on accident."  My
search shows that there are few examples in writing probably due to
"vigilant" copy editors.  There were no examples in Nexis before 1987.
Web searches brought the number of total examples up to perhaps 10 or a
dozen.

Regards,
David K. Barnhart
barnhart at highlands.com