eggcorn

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Wed Jun 1 17:12:06 UTC 2005


On Jun 1, 2005, at 7:10 AM, James Smith wrote:

> Googling turns up 2 hits (only!) for "don't know
> butkus" and 57 for "don't know buttkiss"

yeah, but those 57 turn out to be only 2 when repeats are removed.

[AMZ]
>> but in there are at least two possible eggcorns:
>> "chewy nugget" and
>> "don't know buttkiss".

i've added them both to the eggcorn database as "questionable".

arnold



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