Comfrontable

Michael Quinion wordseditor at WORLDWIDEWORDS.ORG
Fri Dec 1 12:02:49 UTC 2006


A subscriber mentions "comfrontable", which Google reports having found
5980 hits for as an obvious variation on "comfortable". Can anyone suggest
how this curious transition might have come about?


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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
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