Eggcorn-like something or other

[Rex W. Stocklin]

At 1:42 PM -0800 1/14/06, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

>Emerson had "The Oversoul," we have "The Undermind."*  What's the problem ?
>
>   * Punctuation modernized for the underminded.

Mind if I say, that on this roll call of Brobdingnagian linguists I
pretty much feel like an undermind. ;-)



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Rex Stocklin
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