eggcorn?: mamby-pamby (1823)

[Jim Parish]

Mark A. Mandel wrote:
> Wouldn't you prefer "Jack" to "Clive"?

I expressed no opinion concerning his name-change; I merely reported
the (rather amusing) story as I knew it.

> He was "Jack" to his friends,
> including Tolkien and the other Inklings
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inklings).

Doesn't that follow from what I wrote? "He never thereafter
answered..."

Jim Parish

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