Eggcorn: itinerary for inventory

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Aug 10, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Darryl Francis wrote:

> This evening, my wife told our daughter to make an itinerary of the
> household items when she moves into her new flat (apartment).

this would be an ordinary malapropism, probably of the Fay/Cutler
variety (rather than a classical malapropism) -- an inadvertent error
in word retrieval, without any semantic reanalysis.

arnold

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