vaulted for vaunted

[Joel S. Berson]

Has the British strategy been over-leapt?  That is, bypassed, become
defunct, etc.

Joel

At 6/23/2009 04:11 PM, you wrote:
>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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