a lexical blend

Gerald Cohen gcohen at UMR.EDU
Thu Oct 16 00:41:05 UTC 2003


Last Wednesday an announcer at the Cubs/Marlins game said in
reference to a pitcher's performance: "That was a galliant effort."
(valiant + gallant).

Gerald Cohen



At 7:16 PM -0500 10/15/03, Erin McKean wrote:
>...
>Yet another instance of being reminded of a linguistic process and then
>hearing it everywhere ...



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