another one from a post!

[Julia Achenbach]

Well, to be quite honest: I blended the spellings of the German word
'Tonne' and the English word 'ton'.
My bad.

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> On Aug 16, 2009, at 9:44 AM, David A. Daniel wrote:
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>> And yet another eggcorn!!! ... there are still a tone of
>> them on the internet :)
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> people are way too quick to cry "eggcorn".
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> i'd let Julia Achenbach speak for herself, but i'll bet she pronounces
> the word as [t^n] (or something close to that), not [ton].  what
> "tone" looks like here is an orthographic compromise between the
> British spelling TONNE and the American spelling TON.  nothing
> eggcornish about it at all, i'd suppose.
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> arnold
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