"Highbred" eggcorn

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Mar 13, 2006, at 7:53 AM, Alice Faber 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"...)

entered into the eggcorn database (by me) last year:

   http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/335/high-bred-highbred-hi-
bred-hibred/

the collocation of "high" and "dwarf" certainly makes this one
noticeable.

arnold

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