eggcorn: crash commercialism

[Joel S. Berson]

I was hoping some of these would be about ambulance chasing or
fraudulent accident insurance claims, but seemingly not.

Joel

At 3/6/2012 02:56 AM, Randy Alexander wrote:

>A friend sent this in to me:
>
>"Crash commercialism" for "crass commercialism".  This seems to be partly
>borne out of anticipating /S/ where /s/ should be.
>
>Not in the ECDB.
>
>http://www.google.com/search?ix=sea&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22crash+commercialism%22<http://www.google.com.hk/search?ix=sea&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22crash+commercialism%22>
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