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[Laurence Horn]

> On Apr 3, 2015, at 8:51 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "I will happily send you my 20 _sure fired_ tips for selling more books at
> book signings."
> 
> "re-pour" < "rapport"

Those I haven't seen.
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> 
> "Doggie/doggy dog world" is an old, well-known eggcorn, but I still wonder
> what the owners of the DBA's,
> 
> "Doggie Dog World" and "Doggy Dog World"
> 
> had in mind. Were they just joking? Or were they serious?


I suspect tongue-in-cheekiness, like their good friends over at Kitten Caboodle.

> 
> I've noticed the a lot of people write "the" for "that." Though I do the
> myself, I can't winkle out the reason for the.

On that one, I'd wager on autopilot.  "The" is the most common English word by far, so it's possibly I kind of mental version of auto"correct", akin to the ones I'm always berating my mail program for.  Frequency rules!
  
LH
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