Eggcorn?
Arnold M. Zwicky
zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Thu Aug 16 18:09:47 UTC 2007
On Aug 9, 2007, at 7:06 PM, Phili Cleary wrote:
> From the AAA Tour Book for the Atlantic Provinces & Quebec: "The
> [Price] building caused quite a raucous when it was built in 1929...."
an excellent eggcorn, surprisingly frequent. now added to the ecdb:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/946/raucous/
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