Eggcorn??
Benjamin Zimmer
bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Wed Jul 19 16:01:17 UTC 2006
On 7/19/06, Margaret Lee <mlee303 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On the Dr. Phil show yesterday, a 22-year-old male said that his
> statement to his parents that "I did not ask to be born" was a "spurt of the
> moment statement," obviously a reinterpretation of "spur of the moment."
> Is this an eggcorn?
Yep, and it's already in the database:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/431/spurt/
--Ben Zimmer
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