palate

[Arnold Zwicky]

On May 25, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

>    I was surprised not to find the palate/palette alteration in the
>    Eggcorn Database, as IME it has been quite common.

yes, it's common, but it's just a spelling confusion.  there's no evidence of any semantic reanalysis here.

"eggcorn" doesn't mean 'spelling mistake'.

arnold

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