eggcorn

Mark A. Mandel mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Thu May 12 20:04:41 UTC 2005


fritz notes an apparent eggcorn:

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 If you have any questions please fill free to ask away.
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I know I produce some speakos that look like that. (errors in automatic
speech recognition)  I try to catch them.

And Beverly contributes:

>>>
As I understand it, the Southern Shift essentially switches tense and lax
rather than merging them.  So, keel > kill, and kill > keel.
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Truly?!

mark by hand



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