Eggcorn?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Apr 18 21:27:50 UTC 2007


Just heard on the local TV news:

"Most residents of [a flooded town], instead of evacuating, have
decided to _muzzle_ through."

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                                      -Sam'l Clemens
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"Experience" is the ability to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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