Eggcorn

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:48 PM -0500 12/27/04, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Heard on today's The People's Court, spoken by Judge Marilyn Millan:
>
>How, _on God's green acre_, do you explain this?
>
>For the younger members: back in the day, there was a popular novel and
>a movie with the title, "God's Little Acre," which the good judge
>appears to have crossed with the common expression, "on God's green
>earth."
>
>-Wilson Gray

You're omitting another crucial ingredient in the blend:  "Green
Acres", a TV show from the late '60's, spun off from Petticoat
Junction.  No, I wasn't a devotee (it didn't go well with all that
smoked banana peel).

Larry