eggcorn?

[Wilson Gray]

I once went into a convenient[sic; this was back in the day; all such
stores now have changed their signs to read "convenience" store.]
store in Somerville, MA, wherein I was followed about by one of the
clerks. When I told this to a friend, she thereafter referred to the
place as "the _prejudice_ store." Since she was an sE speaker, I'm
fairly certain that it wasn't the phonological environment (alone)
that motivated her pronunciation.

I think that this is the kind of thing that arnold has in mind.

-Wilson

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  I look forward to reading why these aren't garden variety ice cream words.
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>  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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