Eggcorn?

[Mullins, Bill]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of James C Stalker
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 8:59 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Eggcorn?
>
> Among my early memories are picking blackberries in wild
> thickets, groves, clutches (what do blackberries grow in).  I
> remember the copperheads, the mosquitoes, and the resultant
> jams, cobblers, and such.  The poor tasteless things that
> show up in Michigan stores should not be labeld blackberries.
>
> Seeds, weeds, blackberries, nd flowers, like dialect terms,
> thrive in some environments and not others.  A nurseryman
> here in Michigan whose son nurseries in Kentucky (ok, why
> not? I heard timelining on NPR tonight) says that if it a
> perennial in KY, it is most likely an annual in MI.  So far,
> he seems to be right.
>
>

Blackberries are common as dirt in North Alabama.  Unfortunately, so are
chiggers, and you don't get one without the other.