?Eggcorn?

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

another one for my ?? file...

On Jul 23, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Jul 22, 2005, at 4:59 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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>> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>> Subject:      Re: ?Eggcorn?
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>>> Author's note:
>>>
>>> If you use this bookmark-importing tool,
>>>
>>> "Old bookmarks will not be _overridden_."
>>>
>>> My first thought was that this should be ",,, overwritten." But
>>> then,
>>> I
>>> thought. "Well, if a bookmark is looked at as a kind of command
>>> to the
>>> computer, then, perhaps, 'override' is the verb to use."
>>>
>>> -Wilson Gray
>>>
>>
>> Interesting.  For me, "written" and "ridden" are quite distinct
>> phonologically, although of course "writer" and "rider" are the same
>> (modulo a bit of vowel lengthening for the latter--or is it the
>> ladder?--in some registers).   This makes it seem more likely to me
>> (although not certain) that "overridden" was intended here.
>>
>> L
>
> That "overriden" was intended makes better since - uh, I mean "sense,"
> of course (damn! sometime, them homonym be trickih!) -  to me, too,
> Larry.
>
> -Wilson