"up and arms"

[Herb Stahlke]

One I didn't see on the ECDB is "at this point and time," which I saw
on one of the NCAA playoff games last week.  "Point and time" gets
about 30 million googits and "point in time" gets about 60 million.

Herb

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> On Mar 28, 2012, at 1:53 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:39 AM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>>>=20
>>> I checked the eggcorn database just to make sure.
>>=20
>> But see similar in/and confusions here:
>>=20
>> http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/category/english/and-%C2%AB%C2%BB-inen/
>>=20
> --and for some discussion on how this confusion relates to the =
> reanalysis of "spitten image" > spit 'n' image, spittin' image, see my =
> "Spitten image: Etymythology and fluid dynamics", _American Speech_ 79: =
> 33-58.
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> LH
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