Eggcorn?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, 12 May 2005 11:33:10 -0700, Arnold M. Zwicky
<zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:

>On May 12, 2005, at 10:50 AM, i wrote, about SPREAD + "wildflower(s)":
>
>there's a brief entry on "spitting image", which the contributor
>("xerby") took to be a reworking of "spit and image".  at the very
>least, this needs a comment with a reference to larry horn's paper
>and its contents.  ben?

That was on my to-do list, as a matter of fact.  And now it's done.

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/332/spitting-image/



--Ben Zimmer