one more (slightly used) eggcorn

[Roger Shuy]

on 4/21/05 7:45 AM, Laurence Horn at laurence.horn at YALE.EDU wrote:

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> So I heard someone say something on the radio this morning about how
> something "really got [his] gander up", and I thought first, Did I
> really hear that? and then second, Another for the eggcorn files!
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> Then I googled "(get) 'gander up' and find a bunch of hits, e.g.
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> I am sure the special interest groups that ally with the Democrats
> will get their gander up.
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> Obviously, this story gets my gander up, and triggers all my defenses
>
> but to my disappointment, the first hit reveals that I've been
> scooped, since it directed me to
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> http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/15/gander/
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> and notes "As a speculation, the alliteration get one's gander up may
> have played a role in the substitution dander > gander (in
> conjunction with the image of"
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> Unfortunately, that was all I was able to read, since my attempt to
> open the file of eggcorns was thwarted.  It does look like it must be
> an interesting collection, but all I could learn was that "There are
> now 243 eggcorns in the database."
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> Has anyone had better luck opening the database?
>
> Larry
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I had no luck either. Must be something in the water.

Roger