daring-do

[Jonathan Lighter]

Hear, hear !

JL

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>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".
>
It's a natural reversion except for us stubborn New Yorkers who do
not merge "daring" and "derring".


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