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

[David Wake]

Funny -- one would expect this from an Australian/New Zealand/South
African accent where "uncharted" and "unchartered" are homophones.

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> "Unchartered waters" are those where drilling leases have not been granted.
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> Joel
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> At 7/30/2010 12:47 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
>>I forward the item below for those interested in eggcorns.
>>
>>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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