Eggcorn?

[Wilson Gray]

True, Mark, but I wasn't quoting speech. It's from a sentence in a
Web-published analysis of Microsoft's attempts to confidence the state
of Massachusetts into accepting Microsoft's standard as the state's
"open" standard for future software development.

-Wilson

On 10/18/05, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> Poster:       "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: Eggcorn?
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> Wilson writ:
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> "Microsoft's position ... cast _dispersions_ on the fairness and
> objectivity of a  ... state government's process."
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> Easy mis-hearing.
> m a m
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-Wilson Gray