latest Mark Peters on eggcorns

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 8/9/06, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> On Aug 9, 2006, at 6:57 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
> > On 8/9/06, William Salmon <william.salmon at yale.edu> wrote:
> >> In honor of the attention given to eggcorns in this higher education
> >> piece, I give a particularly juicy eggcorn:
> >>
> >> pustule > pus jewel
> >
> > That's a beaut. Just think, if this had been noted on Language Log a
> > few years ago, we might all be referring to "pus jewels" instead of
> > "eggcorns"...
>
> indeed.  wonderful.
>
> now ben and i have *both* added an entry to the database.  ben got
> his in a few seconds (literally) before mine.  now to negotiate...

Now combined into one handy-dandy entry:

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/751/pus-jewel/

And noted on Language Log for good measure:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003434.html


--Ben Zimmer

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