Eggcorn

[Wilson Gray]

On Dec 27, 2004, at 3:16 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

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> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: Eggcorn
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> At 2:48 PM -0500 12/27/04, Wilson Gray wrote:
>> Heard on today's The People's Court, spoken by Judge Marilyn Millan:
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>> How, _on God's green acre_, do you explain this?
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>> For the younger members: back in the day, there was a popular novel
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>> 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."
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>> -Wilson Gray
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> 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).
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> Larry
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Good point, Larr.

-Wilson