[Ads-l] Facebookery: _underlining_ < _underlying_

[Ben Zimmer]

No need to register to partake in the eggcorniness. (Unless you're talking
about registering for the Eggcorn Forum -- not sure how Chris Waigl is
running that these days.) Since searching from the home page can be a
challenge, I tend to go straight to the "Browse Eggcorns" page to see if
something has been covered.

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/browse-eggcorns/

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ben, I'm blocked from participating in the intellectual goodness of the EB
> because I'm a "known spammer," as I discovered when I tried to register. I
> have other e-mail addresses, but, why bother? So, if I do a search from the
> home page that returns nothing, then "that spells _finis_"  - to coin a
> phrase
> -  for me.
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Early entry in the Eggcorn Database...
> >
> > http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/66/underlining/
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > "... identification of the _underlining_ reason."
> > >
> > >
>

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