how to classify?

Charles Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Fri Jun 18 14:20:33 UTC 2010


A misspelling, or a Freudian slip, or an invitation . . . .

Charlie


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>Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:57:15 -0700
>From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> (on behalf of "James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>" <JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM>)
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>an addendum to my previous post:
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>the speaker quoted therein just sent out an e-mail that read "please bare with me".
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>Is this a non-verbal malaprop, a non-verbal eggcorn, or what?
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>     - Jim Landau

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