"confuse for"

[Jonathan Lighter]

My, my. I believe I coined this culturally indispensable acronym myself,
right here, on April 10, 2005.

JL

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>wrote:

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> Yes, it's both.  We deal here with a blend: "confuse with" + "mistake for".
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> Gerald Cohen
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> Original message from Jonathan Lighter, Friday, January 04, 2013 3:36 PM:
> From a journalistic website:
> http://www.livescience.com/11341-good-food-bad.html :
> "What a pity that most Americans have never eaten pizza and confuse it for
> the junk food advertised on television. In Italy there are laws defining
> pizza."
> With > for?  Or mistake > confuse?  Or both?
> JL
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