bridle/bridal

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On May 28, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>>
>> Parallel to "peddle" for "pedal".
>
> of course.  in Brians:
>   http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/pedal.html

The ECDB has "backpeddle" and "soft-peddle":

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/175/backpeddle/
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/455/soft-peddle/

These should probably be combined into one entry with other examples
of "pedal" -> "peddle".


--Ben Zimmer

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