persay = per se

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:13 AM, Herb Stahlke wrote:

> One of my graduate Intro to Linguistics students just wrote (online):
>
> ...students shouldn't be persay "forced" to learn...
>
> I got 92.9k raw ghits on it, although a fair number represent a
> company by that name.  Even an online legal dictionary has it,
> although in the definition they use the Latin term.  I'm using a slow,
> lame motel computer right now and it won't let me check the Eggcorn
> Database to see if "persay" or "per say" are listed there or in the
> forum.

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/81/per-say/

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