benny?

[Wilson Gray]

On Jun 16, 2005, at 5:01 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

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> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:37:36 -0400, Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM>
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>> [Just heard a guy on TV speaking of "French benefits."]
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> Was it a FedEx commercial?
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> See the Eggcorn Database:
> http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/137/french/
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> --Ben Zimmer
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Nah. It was just some random, real-life guy. I know that "French
benefits" is nothing new. That's why I didn't bother to give it its own
posting. It's just that I actually heard it, as opposed to merely
reading about it.

-Wilson