"Highbred" eggcorn
Beverly Flanigan
flanigan at OHIO.EDU
Mon Mar 13 16:07:43 UTC 2006
I love that "irrigation and realization." Highbred indeed.
At 10:53 AM 3/13/2006, you wrote:
>I don't normally spot this one in the wild, but here's a good one, from
>a posting to alt.coffee about the prospects of coffee cultivation in
>Florida:
>
>"The field is set up using highbred dwarf trees growing along a vine
>configuration to support irrigation, and realization."
>
>(I'm assuming the poster, a coffee roastmaster extraordinare, meant
>"hybrid"...)
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