new coinage?

sagehen sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Thu Feb 24 21:10:47 UTC 2005


>>" under pressure to tow party lines".......taken from another list.
>>Is this what you call an Eggcorn  ?  (It could have been an intentional
>>coinage: I haven't asked the perpetrator.)
>>A. Murie
>
>Yes, in fact "tow the line" (the more general version) is a bonified
>charter member of the eggcorn club.
>
>larry
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I love the images evoked:  in one case  "I've got a mule & her name is
Sal...."; in another, the royal barge on the Thames & the strains of Handel
playing from over the water......
AM

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