"last stitch effort"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 24, 2004, at 6:56 AM, David Bowie wrote:

> I am somewhat embarassed to admit that i've been puzzling away in
> silence
> all this time, trying desparately to figure out why in the world these
> things would be called "eggcorns", since "eggcorn" sounds nothing at
> all
> like "acorn" to me.
>
> I finally got it this morning--and this in the face of the fact that
> Jeanne
> and i regularly argue over whose pronunciation of "egg" is correct,
> her [eg]
> or my [Eg].
>
> Does this mean i have to turn in my linguist badge?

if so, i'm in trouble too.  the term was opaque to me the first time i
heard/saw it.

arnold