FW: "Unchartered waters" or "uncharted waters" for Austin City Council?

Fri Jul 30 21:30:32 UTC 2010

"Unchartered waters" are those where drilling leases have not been granted.

Joel

At 7/30/2010 12:47 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
>I forward the item below for those interested in eggcorns.
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>Gerald Cohen
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>From: Ben Zimmer [mailto:bgzimmer at gmail.com]
>Sent: Thu 7/29/2010 10:15 PM
>To: Barry Popik
>Cc: Cohen, Gerald Leonard
>Subject: Re: "Unchartered waters" or "uncharted waters" for Austin
>City Council?
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>A common eggcorn:
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>http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/173/unchartered/
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>On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Barry Popik <bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
> > On KVUE Austin News just now the lead story has been the proposed
> settlement
> > for a police shooting.
> > ...
> > "This puts us in unchartered waters," said one city council member.
> > ...
> > When Columbus sailed, he went into UNCHARTED waters--not on any map or
> > chart.
> > ...
> > UNCHARTERED waters are waters that are on a map or a chart, but
> don't have a
> > charter?
> > ...
> > I can easily refudiate this argument.
> > ...
> > Barry Popik
> > Round Rock, TX
> > www.barrypopik.com
> > ...
> > P.S. I'll bet the Statesman runs this quote and cleans it up.
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