eggcorn?
Herb Stahlke
hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
Sun Apr 20 16:07:24 UTC 2008
I look forward to reading why these aren't garden variety ice cream words.
Herb
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky <
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> > > 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.
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> "Brians"?
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> "All we want to do is eat your Brians..."
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