Eggcorn?? Deepseeded

[Dennis R. Preston]

Well, let's get some students on it. Gaps in sentences are OK; gaps
in research are crummy.

dInIs

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>Subject:      Re: Eggcorn??  Deepseeded
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>On Apr 26, 2007, at 5:02 AM, Dennis Preston wrote:
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>>  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.
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>>  This one is shoe in to Double by end of week
>>  Huge Volume spike, many people are already in the know
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>yes.  credit to Mark Liberman on the ecdb:
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>    http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/47/shoe/
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>(note: the next entry after "deep-seeded".)
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>>  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)?
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>there are certainly differences, and omissibility also varies
>according to context, but i don't know if these factors have been
>described.
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>arnold
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