Erected on the installment plan?
Baker, John
JMB at STRADLEY.COM
Mon Jul 31 23:22:34 UTC 2006
Merriam-Webster, Webster's New World, and American Heritage all
seem to accept this meaning of installment (= installation) without
comment.
John Baker
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Subject: Erected on the installment plan?
Eggcorn?:
Writing on the June primary in Alabama in / The Nation/, Bob Moser
said, "The vast majority of Alabamians had cheered Moore's _installment
_ of a
(snip) monument to Old Testament law ...."
AM
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