daring-do

[Wilson Gray]

There are speakers of (N)AE who merge "daring" and "derring"? Geez,
Larry, I did not know that. Far fucking out! ;-) FWIW, I have
"d[ae]ring" - as in "L[ae]rry " - and "d[E]rring," resp.

-Wilson

On 10/28/05, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: daring-do
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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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-Wilson Gray