Yankee eggcorn

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:47 AM -0400 9/22/08, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Benjamin Zimmer
><bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>
>>  Derek Jeter to Peter Gammons on ESPN just now (after the last game at Yankee
>>  Stadium): "The fans here never seem to amaze me."
>
>Listen for yourself here (right at the beginning of the clip):
>
>http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?categoryId=2378529&brand=null&videoId=3601782&n8pe6c=2
>
>
>>  The Eggcorn Database already has "never seize(s) to amaze":
>>
>>  http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/351/seize/
>>
>>  ...but Google suggests "never seem(s) to amaze" is about as common.
>>
>>  http://www.google.com/search?q=never-seize|seizes-to-amaze
>  > http://www.google.com/search?q=never-seem|seems-to-amaze
>
And in particular "it never seems to amaze me on how...", which I
can't even figure out what is an eggcorn for.

LH

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