Eggcorn?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Nov 30 15:59:44 UTC 2007


At 10:40 AM -0500 11/30/07, Wilson Gray wrote:
>  >From IntentBlog:
>
>"Its distorted forms are so varied that even a greatest of the
>artistic and scientific minds can not conjure its appearance,
>_call what may_, terrorism, religion, ideology, ..."
>
>>>From Abby Winters forum:
>
>"Hursuite... Hairy... Natural... _call what may_"
>
>These are the only two examples from Google. IMO, both writers have
>crossed "come what may" with "call it what you will."
>
Safer than "come what you will", anyway.

LH

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