cry fowl

[Arnold Zwicky]

reported on University South (Palo Alto) News of 7/19/09:

   And on Palo Alto's Town Square, "Don't cry fowl now. You had your
chance ...

Brians treats foul/fowl as a simple spelling confusion:
   http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/foul.html

and that seems reasonable to me.

arnold

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