Proposal: A separate antedatings list

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 11/5/07, David Bowie <db.list at pmpkn.net> wrote:
>
> From:    ronbutters at AOL.COM
>
> <snip>
>
> > ...I'm satisfied that this loss is not
> > important to the members of the list--that most people seem to like
> > it the way it is--a list serve devoted largely to antedatings,
> > updating the lexicographical record by listing every variant on every
> > food and drink term current in the world, posting every
> > might-be-a-eggcorn (even though Zwicky maintains a separate online
> > list) and every thought that comes into the heads of two or three of
> > our more gabby contributors...
>
> Part of the issue may also be that not everyone is aware of other
> resources. For example, this was the first i'd heard that there's a
> separate eggcorns list.

Presumably Ron was talking about The Eggcorn Database, maintained by
Chris Waigl (also an ADS-L subscriber), with frequent contributions
from Arnold and me:

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/


--Ben Zimmer

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