Triumph for trump--eggcorn?
David Bowie
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Tue Mar 7 18:19:09 UTC 2006
Not sure if this passes the threshold for calling something an eggcorn,
but from this past weekend's comments on Chris Cillizza's Washington
_Post_ politics blog:
This time effective management may triumph all because of
continued revelations regarding Bush's incompetence (i.e.
Katrina).
Presumably "trump" was intended rather than "triumph". The meanings are
close enough that i can see them getting confused, but they don't really
*sound* anything alike--however, they *look* pretty similar.
Maybe we need a word for textual eggcorns.
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