Eggcorn?

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Apr 18, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> Just heard on the local TV news:
>
> "Most residents of [a flooded town], instead of evacuating, have
> decided to _muzzle_ through."

very very hard to find other examples with "muzzle" for "muddle" (the
exx involve muzzles of one kind or another, or "muzzle" 'suppress')
-- and this substitution might be phonological (maybe the reverse of
"cud'n" for "cousin" etc.).

arnold

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