(still) birth (I hope) of an eggcorn?

sagehen sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Mon Mar 20 00:33:56 UTC 2006


Half-paralysed by cold wind and snow, I heard myself answering the
reporter's  question about how we publicised our local peace demo with the
expression "mouth to mouth."  The paper famously misquotes people, putting
the reporter's paraphrasis beween quotation marks and attributing it to the
subject, so I can hope not to find myself accurately quoted on the front
page tomorrow.
A. Murie


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