"last stitch effort"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sep 23, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:

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> Poster:       "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: "last stitch effort"
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> On Sep 21, 2004, at 9:03 AM, Orin Hargraves wrote:
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>> Wasn’'t somebody collecting these things the other week?
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> the Language Loggers (me included) have been collecting these
> "eggcorns" for months.
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>> <quote>
>> I thought maybe it was the types of vibrators I was buying, so I
>> decided as a
>> last stitch effort to try something new.
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>> There are enough hits elsewhere to suggest that many mistake this for
>> “last
>> ditch effort.
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> yes.  nice reanalysis.
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> arnold
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Arnold, do you have "supposably" already? It's *very* common in BE. How
about "artificial insimilation"?

-Wilson