to "lip-sync"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
>
> During a conversation with a colleague about recent Inauguration events, I realized,
> with astonishment, that I had just uttered the preterit of "lip-sync" as "lip-sank" (or
> should it be spelled "lip-sanc" or "lip-sanch"?).
>
> Google gives a few thousand hits for "lip-sanc," a lesser number for "lip-sank" and
> "lip-sanch (with or without the hyphen, one word or two).

We had some discussion in 2005 of the eggcorny forms "lip-sang"/"lip-sung":

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0502D&L=ADS-L&P=R3413&I=-3

...which Arnold incorporated into the ECDB entry for "lip-sing":

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/731/lip-sing/

--bgz

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