eggcorn: shill > shrill

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> Seems somewhat common on political blogs and the like.
>
>  ---
>  http://pushingrope.blogspot.com/2006/10/conservative-bloggers-throw-in-towel.html
>  The sweet sorrow of a former Democrat, turned civil libertarian,
>  turned into a Republican shrill.
>  ---
>  http://www.metafilter.com/36149/Firstclass-ticket-and-private-jet-not-good-enough-for
>  Compared to him, Limbaugh actually sounds more like a principled
>  conservative than a Republican shrill like Hannity.
>  ---
>  http://bushout.blogspot.com/2005/11/bob-woodward-outed-as-neocon-shrill.html
>  Bob Woodward Outed As A Neocon Shrill
>  ---
>  http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=7668
>  However in 2004, the editor, Taegan Goddard, basically became a
>  liberal shrill without having the intellectual honesty to openly admit
>  his bias.
>  ---
>  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606145/posts
>  Those who refer to him as a liberal shrill don't have a clue that he
>  is a life long Republican.
>  ---

And now I see Ken Lakritz has noted "shrill" as a verb in the Eggcorn
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http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/contribute/comment-page-50/#comment-3377


--Ben Zimmer

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