vaulted for vaunted

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:48 PM -0400 6/23/09, Alison Murie wrote:
>Writing in the _London Telegraph_, Sean Rayment  eggcorns (ta-ta! v.)
>thus:
>"In direct contradiction to the view of the defence chiefs and the
>government, Major Miller added that the much-vaulted British strategy
>of  'winning the hearts and minds' of the Afghan people in Helmand had
>failed."That is, I think this qualifies as an eggcorn, since a sort of
>odd sense can be made of it.
>AM
>
Unless it's a typo. But experience suggests you're right--see the
exchange in the eggcorn forum at
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2065.

Elsewhere in that difficult region, Roger Cohen writes in an op-ed in
today's Times that in Iran, "the strategic goal of the uprising is
increasingly fraught".  (Another entry for the intransitive-"fraught"
file.)

LH

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