passive "kowtowed" for "cowed"

[Mark Mandel]

Soon to take its place alongside cow-tipping as a favorite prank of drunken
southmores.

m a m

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> At 9:03 AM -0700 10/21/10, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
> >ah, a step beyond my posting here:
> >
> >AZ, 10/15/07: Cow-towing to Celsius:
> >  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005026.html<http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/005026.html>
>
> Ah, a classic!  I remember it well, but I'd
> forgotten the last bit, which is relevant here.
> The final stages of the eggcornification are (i)
> the orthographically inspired reanalysis of
> "cow-tow" as [kauto],
>

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