cardshark

[Benjamin Zimmer]

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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