Sprig > spring: possible eggcorn

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Thu May 30 18:27:03 UTC 2013


I just wrote "springs of parsley" by mistake. Google shows 85K raw results for "springs of parsley." It's possible that all of them are spelling errors, but I suspect many are actual eggcorns.

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

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