cardshark
Benjamin Zimmer
bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Wed Apr 30 04:24:41 UTC 2008
This has come up both here and on Language Log....
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0509a&L=ads-l&P=18683
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003448.html
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is "card shark" a candidate for eggcorn? Neither OED nor AHD list it,
> although both, not surprisingly, have "card sharp." Google gives the
> following results:
>
> card shark 549,000
> card-shark 259,000
> cardshark 259,000
> cardsharking 112
> cardsharker 9
>
> card sharp 857,000
> card-sharp 138,000
> cardsharp 137,000
> cardsharping 9,130
> cardsharper 8,980
>
> The hyphenated and single word searches produce essentially the same
> lists, and there appears to be considerable overlap between the forms
> with and without the space.
>
> Herb
>
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