"Unchartered waters"

[Chris F Waigl]

Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2007 8:20 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hardly a new one, but just uttered to the nation by an announcer for
>> the big Kansas-Missouri football game just a moment ago.  We're told
>> that both teams are in them.
>>
>
> More here:
>
> http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/173/unchartered/
>
>

I hear "unchartered territory" a lot on the news. Though I wonder if it
could sometimes be an intrusive [r], which is very common in the English
media ("lore and order" ...).

Chris Waigl

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