Yankee eggcorn

[sagehen]

on 9/22/08 10:20 AM, Laurence Horn at laurence.horn at YALE.EDU wrote:

> 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
~~~~~~~~~
 Surely it's for "it never ceases to amaze me....."
AM

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