bridle/bridal

[Mark Mandel]

Parallel to "peddle" for "pedal".

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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Ann Burlingham wrote me yesterday with a sighting of "bridle wreath"
> referring to spirea, and then a fair number of googled-up examples.
>
> "bridle shower" and "bridle party" have been mentioned in the Eggcorn
> Forum.
>
> in the other direction, there are hits for "bridal path" in a horse
> context (there are also plays on words for this expression in a
> wedding context). Â and in the Eggcorn Forum, the wonderful "unbridaled
> passion".
>
> just a spelling confusion, of course -- but tempting enough that since
> i started googling up examples i've had to think carefully about which
> spelling i want.
>
> arnold

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