Re: eggcorn of the day

[Roger Shuy]

on 5/7/05 11:27 AM, Arnold M. Zwicky at zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU wrote:

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> On May 7, 2005, at 10:10 AM, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
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>> In a message dated 5/7/05 12:13:51 PM, zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
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>>> On May 5, 2005, at 5:23 PM, Larry Horn wrote:
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>>>> With Floyd batting .391, the Mets have been able to make due with
>>>> Mike Piazza batting .198.
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>>>> --Lee Jenkins, "Mets on Edge Show Precision When It Matters", NYT,
>>>> 5/5/05, D3
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>>>> (I don't find "make due" in the database @ http://
>>>> eggcorns.lascribe.net/)
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>>> not in the database yet, because i haven't gotten around to entering
>>> it.  but i guess now's the time.
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>>> i already had a cite from the Palo Alto Daily News of  12/15/04, one
>>> offered by Mark Mandel on this very newsgroup on 1/29/05, and a
>>> selection from the thousands of examples that Google provides.
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>>> arnold, awash in a sea of eggcorns, ordinary malaprops, morphological
>>> reshapings, misspellings, etc.
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>> shouldn't this be "make dew"?
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> oh lord, there are some actual cites for this.
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> arnold
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You'll get them in do time.