Another eggcorn: "lip-sing"

Wed Feb 23 05:30:04 UTC 2005

At 11:34 PM -0500 2/22/05, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>I just ran into "lip-sing" for "lip-synch" [verb]. Pretty good. Hundreds of
>Web examples.
>
>-- Doug Wilson

Yes, I've been using that one for years, at least since a 1994 "Words
and Meaning" final exam, so it's been around that long.  I first came
across it on a religious web site, of all places, in the gerundive
form ("lip-singing").

Larry