Eggcorn?? Deepseeded

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Apr 26, 2007, at 5:02 AM, Dennis Preston wrote:

> While we are egg-corning, here's another example of "shoe-in" from
> one of those pesky stock "offers" I get so frequently; this has
> already been discussed on the Language Log I believe.

> This one is shoe in to Double by end of week
> Huge Volume spike, many people are already in the know

yes.  credit to Mark Liberman on the ecdb:

   http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/47/shoe/

(note: the next entry after "deep-seeded".)

> On another front, I don't now if this is non-native or telegraphic
> style. For some reason the absence of "a" before "shoe-in" seems the
> former but I'm happy with no "the" before "end" and "week" in the
> latter. Is there a difference in the loss of definites and
> indefinites in what we used to call telegraphic writing (and is
> doubtless now extended to lots of text-messaging styles)?

there are certainly differences, and omissibility also varies
according to context, but i don't know if these factors have been
described.

arnold

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