Eggcorn

[Beverly Flanigan]

I just got another one, in a student's term paper:  "In this day in age, .
. ."  Or maybe this has already been noted?

At 01:43 PM 5/31/2006, you wrote:
>Very close veins and superstitious fleabites. A glossary of lay medical
>terms. Dirckx JH.Publication Types Dictionary MeSH Terms Humans
>Terminology* ...
>www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&
>db=PubMed&list_uids=8311197&dopt=Abstract -
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>Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:  "He's lying _to_ his teeth."
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>"She's lying _to_ her teeth."
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>-Wilson Gray
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