Eggcorn: ease dropping
Chris Waigl
chris at LASCRIBE.NET
Mon May 18 02:25:41 UTC 2009
On 17 May 2009, at 17:30, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>
> not in the ecdb, but it's been suggested at least three times by
> contributors, in 2005 and 2006. we have a huge backlog of cases.
> this is definitely a good one.
In the ECDB now http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/1099/ease-drop/
together with _eardrop_ http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/1100/eardrop/
. (The second is much harder to research: it overlaps with the
medical preparation and an undesirable state of affairs for corn crops.)
Chris
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