mints pie? axe of God? religious tracks? Prints of Wales?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat May 7 20:30:40 UTC 2005


At 2:01 PM -0400 5/7/05, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>I searched on Google for "mints pie" and found that John Lennon (?) once used
>this spelling for a Christmas pie, but I'm not sure if he was making a pun or
>not. I'm interested in any eggcorns that use mints/mince, prints/prince,
>acts/axe, tracks/tracts, etc. There are several commerical names that use the
>prints/prince puns, but these of course are not eggcorns.

cf. "A good doctor always has a lot of patience."

Larry



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