Eggcorn: *mooted* > *muted*

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 11/6/07, Damien Hall <halldj at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> [Arnold:]
> > added to the ecdb entry for moot > mute:
>
> >   http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/41/mute/
>
> Thanks for adding it to the Database!  But, clicking on the link from there to
> the original story, just out of curiosity, I find that someone at MSN Sport has
> noticed and changed it back, rather than glorying in the endlessly creative
> possibility of error, as they should have done.  Could you add a note to that
> effect, as well?  (To the effect that it was an eggcorn and has been corrected,
> not to the effect that they should embrace their copy-writers' creativity.)

For the moment, at least, the "muted" version is still on this page
cached by Google:

http://google.com/search?q=cache:www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12040_2839166,00.html

And with somewhat more permanence here:

http://sportnet2.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/fa-confirm-world-cup-bid/


--Ben Zimmer

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