relish in and plummaging, possible eggcorns?

Arnold Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Sat Apr 11 15:14:09 UTC 2009


On Apr 11, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Herb Stahlke wrote:

> ... Neither shows up in a search of the Eggcorn Forum.

well, there's no reason to think these *are* eggcorns.  there are all
sorts of reshapings and non-standard word choices that aren't eggcorns.

these are nice examples of malapropisms, probably with contributions
from two items in each case.

arnold

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