Another eggcorn: "lip-sing"
Douglas G. Wilson
douglas at NB.NET
Wed Feb 23 05:50:24 UTC 2005
>>I just ran into "lip-sing" for "lip-synch" [verb]. Pretty good. Hundreds of
>>Web examples.
>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").
Note that there are many Web examples of "lip-sung" and "lip-sang" ... but
also many examples of "lip-singed".
-- Doug Wilson
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