Eggcorn: tract vs. track

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On May 2, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

> There is a nice example of this in "track house" (for tract house,
> housing); it works even semantically since such housing is thought to
> be close to (but on the wrong side of) the tracks.

i have now added a comment to the "track" entry:

   http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/514/track/

and created a "tract" entry:

   http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/698/track/

(with credit to ADS-Lers in both places)

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