Not an eggcorn--just a mistake?

[Mark A. Mandel]

Charles Doyle scripsit:

> Last night on MTV's "Room Raiders" (I know, I need to get a life!), a
> participant entered an extremely messy room, which he twice referred to
> as having been "thrashed."  I assume he meant "trashed," but he
> (unconsciously) introducted a more particular image of how the room got
> that way.

Coincidentally, John Wells's phonetic blog entry for Tuesday, August 1, 
deals with a possibly related phenomenon. I've had to take out the IPA.

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/blog.htm
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In the UK we get not the current series but reruns of old shows. The 
programme shown yesterday (some five or six years old) had as one of the 
defendants a Californian black man with a pronunciation feature I have never 
noticed before and never seen referred to: for the cluster "thr" [in lieu of 
IPA -- m a m], as in throw, through, he pronounced a kind of pharyngealized 
dental plosive, really rather like an Arabic emphatic t, [IPA deleted]. I 
don�t know if this was a personal idiosyncrasy of this particular speaker, 
or whether other people do it too. Anyone got any comments?

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-- Mark
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