Eggcorn?

[Wilson Gray]

Absolutely, Larry. Your argument makes complete since to me. ;-)

-Wilson

On 10/18/05, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 2:02 PM -0400 10/18/05, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >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
>
> Right, but presumably whoever wrote the sentence had stored "cast
> dispersions (on)" rather than "cast aspersions (on)" as the
> lexicalized form of the expression (or prefab, as Bolinger would call
> it) based on his or her earlier mishearing/reanalysis.
>
> Larry
>
> >
> >On 10/18/05, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> >>  Wilson writ:
> >>  >>>
> >>  "Microsoft's position ... cast _dispersions_ on the fairness and
> >>  objectivity of a  ... state government's process."
> >>  <<<
> >>
> >>  Easy mis-hearing.
> >>  m a m
> >>
> >
> >
> >--
> >-Wilson Gray
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-Wilson Gray