eggcorn: lunge < plunge

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

I'm still a little iffy on the definitions, but this seems to be some kind of eggcorny thing. I found the following on a video game discussion list:

"After all this time I've finally decided to take the lunge and buy an XBox..."

A quick Google search turns up a few more examples of "take the lunge" which is obviously semantically motivated. I didn't see it in the eggcorn database.

- Matt Gordon

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