Eggcorn? guilded vs. gilded

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Mar 28, 2006, at 10:05 AM, David Bowie wrote:

> Sifting through email that'd piled up during Spring Break, i ran
> across
> the following from one of WashingtonPost.com's columnist chat sessions
> (Steven Pearlstein, 14 March 2006), from a questioner:
>
> ---
> Lewiston, Mich.: Thank you for talking about this issue, which has
> been
> all but ignored by the Media and the Politicians, with the notable
> exception of John Edwards; namely that we are heading toward another
> guilded age.
> ---

huge number of google hits (close to 30,000, not all of which are
relevant, of course) for "Guilded Age"!  as a reality check, under a
thousand hits for "guild the lily", and most of these are not relevant.

arnold

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