eggcorn?
Arnold M. Zwicky
zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Sun Apr 20 04:36:10 UTC 2008
On Apr 19, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu
> >
> wrote:
>
>
>>> i have a Language Log posting in preparation on "prejudice" for
>>> "prejudiced" and "bias" for "biased" -- both of which are frequent
>>> enough to have made it into Brians.
>>
>
> "Brians"?
>
> "All we want to do is eat your Brians..."
Paul Brians, Common Errors in English Usage:
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
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