More on "calvary"

[Laurence Horn]

>  Larry writes:
>>Note along the same lines "irrevelant" for "irrelevant".  77,700 hits
>>for the former, many of them not prescriptive tracts bemoaning the
>>malapropism.  Of course here there's no "irrevelant" to confuse it
>>with, but the influence of "irreverent" may be not entirely
>>irrelevant.  Along the l/r lines, there's also "heffalump" for
>>"elephant", mutatis mutandis.
>>
>>LH
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>Integral/intregal comes to mind as one among a number of common mistakes of
>this class; that is, where there is no second real word, but the order of
>consonants presents a trap for the unwary. I know there are others, but
>can't think of them at the moment.  As the bumbliness of age grows on me,,
>I sometimes jib a bit before taking a run at some words that I haven't had
>occasion to use for quite a while.
>AM
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I confess I've always had problems with that one.  It's not so much a
mistake, since I always correct myself ("intregal...integral"), but
for some reason I can't ever seem to get my tongue around "integral"
on the first try.

LH

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