Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn"
David Bowie
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Wed Feb 11 14:46:17 UTC 2009
From: Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
> Give us some good ole IPA or SAMPA or XSAMPA and demonstrate its
> usefulness for teaching phonetics for kids. Show English
> freindliness. Show email friendliness. Show capitalization and
> punctuation friendliness. Use m-w.com speaker's accent. Here's a
> good sentence to use that I made up containing all 40 USA English
> phonemes.
Goalposts?
Check.
Moved?
Check.
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David Bowie University of Central Florida
Jeanne's Two Laws of Chocolate: If there is no chocolate in the
house, there is too little; some must be purchased. If there is
chocolate in the house, there is too much; it must be consumed.
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