"Kubla Khan and Ollie"

[Dan Goncharoff]

He could have said "Kukla, Stan and Ollie"...

DanG


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Nov 22, 2013, at 8:45 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > I remember them, although distantly; but why is this an eggcorn?
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> Well, maybe rather a malapropism.  I thought it was an eggcorn because I
> was assuming that Francesa had a mental lexicon entry for "Kubla Khan" and
> not for "Kukla (the clown)" or "Fran (Allison)", but you're right in
> questioning my characterization, since Kubla Khan doesn't rationalize or
> motivate the expression, unless you assume he'd have make a good partner
> for a dragon (albeit a puppet dragon).  But let's go with Mrs. Malaprop.
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> LH
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> > Joel
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> > At 11/22/2013 04:05 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >> Uttered by Mike Francesa, normally a sports talk host on WFAN but
> >> today reminiscing about television broadcasts on and about November
> >> 22, 1963.  (You young whippersnapper will want to google "Kukla,
> >> Fran, and Ollie" to see what this is an eggcorn for; it was a
> >> favorite show of mine some years before '63, and indeed it seems to
> >> have been off the air after 1957.)
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> >> LH
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