Exasperated for exacerbated

[Jonathan Lighter]

FWIW, I have heard this at least once on CNN in recent months.

Trending? Maybe not.

JL


On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:19 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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> On Sep 2, 2014, at 8:46 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM> =
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> > I dont see this in the Eggcorn database.
> >=20
> > Delta Flight Rerouted After Passengers Fight Over Legroom by ABC News =
> =3D
> > =
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> https://gma.yahoo.com/delta-flight-routed-due-passenger-disruption-061107=
> =3D
> > 123--abc-news-topstories.html):
> >=20
> > "The flight attendant came over, and that just exasperated what was =3D
> > going on, and then [the complaining passenger] demanded that the =
> flight =3D
> > land," a fellow passenger said later.
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> not in the ecdb, but discussed several times in the eggcorn forum, where =
> the eggcornistas treat it as a simple classical malapropism, not as an =
> eggcorn (there is no reanalysis in favor of greater semantic =
> transparency).
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> arnold
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