Can a have an A, men?
Rex W. Stocklin
listcatcher at REXSTOCKLIN.COM
Wed Feb 4 21:48:41 UTC 2009
>BTW, it's usually "navel-gazing", with no "r", pseudo-academically
>known as omphaloskepsis. Eggcorn here?
Oh you nutty lexicogs, always looking for a spook around every, um,
eggcorn. Nope I meant it, as wordplay. As in harvesting my stash of
naval lint. Umbiliculture, praps? Or Omphaloponics?
Conversely, could being at sea be called naval gazing?
Rex
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