Making due

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Michael Sheehan <wordmall at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Headline in today's Traverse City, Michigan, Record-Eagle:  Making due
> with less than full-time work.

An oldie but goodie in the eggcorn files. Mark Mandel brought it up
here in '05, and Arnold Zwicky entered it into the ECDB:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0501E&L=ADS-L&D=0&P=3275
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/342/due/


--Ben Zimmer

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