Social animals
Arnold M. Zwicky
zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Sun Aug 24 13:13:28 UTC 2008
On Aug 23, 2008, at 9:08 PM, Larry Horn wrote:
> If you have trouble conforming to social morays [see earlier threads
> on "social moray" as eggcorn], you may find yourself treated as,
> well,...
>
> http://www.syl.com/articles/adoptioninschoolisactuallymorecommonthanyouwouldthink.html
> People who have been adopted or are in foster care should not be
> treated as a social leopard...
now entered into the ecdb by Chris Waigl:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/1066/leopard/
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