daring-do

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Oct 28, 2005, at 8:58 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Not in OED, but probably what most people are thinking :
>
> 2002 Samuel Brantley _Zero Dark Thirty_ (Central Point, Ore.:
> Hellgate Press) 47 : Daring-do indeed.
>
> About 40,000 raw Googlits.

now in the eggcorn database, with credit to Jon:

   http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/650/daring-do/

nice example of a reversion to the original form, which was in fact
built on the ME version of the verb "dare".

arnold