Eggcorn: "toffee"
Jesse Sheidlower
jester at PANIX.COM
Sun Dec 2 18:07:20 UTC 2007
In the Style section of today's New York Times, we read
this, about the English film director Guy Ritchie:
About five or six rounds later, as Slash, the top-hatted lead
guitarist of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver, sauntered in,
Mr. Ritchie was discussing how he now enjoyed "the toffee side
of English life."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/fashion/02nite.html
I'm reasonably confident that Mr. Ritchie was actually
discussing how he enjoyed the _toff-y_ side of English life,
that is, the bit of or relating to toffs, or affectedly rich
or upper-class people.
Not in the Eggcorn Database and I doubt it belongs there, but
I figured I should point it out here.
Jesse Sheidlower
OED
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