Cats, horses, eggcorns

[James Smith]

Interesting.  My cursory perusal of the 19 Google hits
for "put the cat before the horse" indicates some are
deliberate, i.e., cat lovers, veterinarians, and
others may be true eggcorns - or maybe spell check
gone awry; hard to tell which.

[By the way, my Yahoo spell check doesn't recognize
Google - a marketing ploy?]



--- Mark Peters <markpeters33 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> I just read a student paper with a very sweet
> eggcorn: "put the cat before the horse."
>
>   I found a few deliberate plays on the expression
> out there, but these seem sincere:
>
>   Former Athletic Federation of Nigeria technical
> head, M. A. K Ogun has indicted top officials of
> Premier League side, Gateway FC, of ruining the team
> with very poor recruitment exercise, saying what
> they did was putting the cat before the horse. He
> took exception to the action of officials who
> recruited players first before engaging an
> appropriate coach to come on-board, saying the
> practice has been the bane of Nigerian teams.
>
>
http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/sports/june05/18062005/sp418062005.html
>
>   What is lacking, quite clearly is the spice of
> public action. But perhaps to expect that the
> Attorney-General's Office and the Government in
> general can eradicate corruption is to put the cat
> before the horse.
>
>
http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/1998/130998/Comment/News_Analysis2.html
>
>   Let us not put the cat before the horse.I want to
> know this time round we will not be used and
> explioted by anyone. You see we tend to gain from
> this but only if our government make proper contract
> arrangement with these companies.
>
>
http://forum.visitsierraleone.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=149&PN=1&get=last
>
>   The logic here is pretty sweet: putting the cat
> before the horse is definitely not recommended by
> vets...
>
>   Mark
>
>
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