new coinage?

[Jonathan Lighter]

I thought it was "tow" till I was in graduate school.  On the Erie Canal, a "tow-lines" were hawsers aboard a canalboat which, hitched to one of a pair of mules (on the "tow-path") would enable them to tow the boat for some distance.

So it's not an eggcorn, dammit.  "Tow the mark" is an eggcorn !

JL

sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM> wrote:
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" 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


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