eggcorn: saddled -> straddled

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gingrich-campaign-traveling-press-own-damn-ride-014411649.html
> "The reporters on the bus, now straddled with an unexpected new cost, fumed."

This has now been silently corrected to "saddled."

> Turns out this is a very common eggcorn -- I found recent examples
> from such sources as Dow Jones, Reuters, the Financial Times, and the
> New York Post. Into the database it goes:
>
> http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/1114/straddle/

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