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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