"ascribe to"
sagehen
sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Sun Jul 9 15:27:17 UTC 2006
On NPR's Weekend Edition today, in a short piece on a recent book on Poe,
the speaker attributed Poe's lack of success during his lifetime partly to
his failure to "ascribe to" conventional religious doctrines of the day.
I've heard this often enough that I daresay it's already in the eggcorn
base.
AM
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