Yankee eggcorn

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:47 PM -0400 9/22/08, sagehen wrote:
>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
>
I assume that that is indeed what "it never seems to amaze me (how)"
is an eggcorn for, but where does the *on* come from?

LH

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