Cool malapropism/eggcorn

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 2/7/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
>
> Google also gives a couple of hundred instances of "at this time and point"--perhaps
> modeled on "time and place," with some influence from "point in (and) time"?

Cf. also the in->and substitution of "case and point", which sometimes
get inverted to "point and case".

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/444/case-and-point/


--Ben Zimmer

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