Eggcorns?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 10/23/06, Michael Quinion <wordseditor at worldwidewords.org> wrote:
>
> One of my subscribers noted an article on the Safehaven site, whose
> opening sentence reads "Much adieu was made this week about the U.S.
> population crossing the 300 million mark on Tuesday, Oct. 17."
> (http://www.safehaven.com/article-6123.htm)

That one's been in the Database for a while.

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/93/adieu/


--Ben Zimmer

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