pedalling those myths

[Chris Waigl]

> the database has soft-pedal >> soft-peddle (file 455) and backpedal
>  >> backpeddle (175), but not (apparently) the reverse.  "peddle" and
> "pedal" are easy spelling confounds, and that might be all that's
> going on here.  i wonder what image the poster had in mind.

I have a feeling something along the lines of flogging a dead myth.

(I.e. a repetitive movement of some of one's limbs, directed at something,
possibly with some insistence or aggression.)

Chris Waigl

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