Heard on The Judges: eggcorn.

[Alison Murie]

On Jul 20, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

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> At 2:43 PM -0400 7/20/09, Wilson Gray wrote:
>> Forty-ish Latino female standard-English speaker:
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>> "I couldn't get him to bring me a contract. He just kept _hemming
>> and hauling_".
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> Well, as far as excrescent liquids go, seems like a safer choice than
> "He just kept hemming and hawring"
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> LH
???  "hawking?"

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