a working progress

Stephen Goranson goranson at DUKE.EDU
Sun May 14 13:37:00 UTC 2006


Before today, I don't recall reading anything described as "a working
progress"
rather than a "work in progress." I was surprised to see about 18,400 google
hits, though that's small compared to the 16 million with the latter spelling.
An eggcorn?

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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