religious tracks

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 02:10 PM 5/7/2005, you wrote:
>Here is a genuine "religious track" eggcorn from the Mississippi Standard
>Democrat (11/25/2002)
>(http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/865/public/news398319.html)
>
>  "All denominations of literature are accepted, Breland said. New Bibles,
>religious tracks, good, used hardback or paperback religious items are
>acceptable, Breland said. Any spiritual or religious literature is
>accepted, however
>racist literature is restricted from being shelved in the library, he added."

And the reverse also happens:  When we had two tracks of study in our
Linguistics department some years ago, one faculty member (a non-native
speaker, hopefully--I can't recall) consistently called them "tracts" and
even used that word in writing.