some kind of malaprop

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Aug 29, 2007, at 8:09 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:

> On 8/29/07, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:

>>> ... who only understood the word
>>> "no" when accompanied by explicatives.
>
> Goes along with the shouted and deleted explicatives previously found
> by Wilson and Arnold...
>
> http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/517/explicative/
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0508B&L=ADS-
> L&P=R5370

damn!  i knew it sounded familiar!

arnold the immemorious

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