[Ads-l] Eggcorn database?

[Chris Waigl]

Thanks for the alert - seems like my hosting provider has some new
requirements for database configurations. Give me a moment to figure out
what needs to be done...

Chris


On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 8:21 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> Hi Chris et al.,
>
> I just tried checking to see if an item I encountered (and then found
> additional attestations for on the web) was in ECDB but the usual link,
> https://eggcorns.lascribe.net, seems not to be up.  Anyway, the item in
> question was
>
> “run ramshackle over” (for “run roughshod over”)
>
> Well, maybe it’s not a…well, let’s say *bonified* eggcorn, since even if
> you don’t know what “roughshod” is, it’s not as if “run ramshackle” would
> make a lot of sense.  So maybe it’s a mere malaprop; tricky distinction in
> such cases…
>
>
> From Google Books:
>
> The Army team did have obvious recruiting, and we watched as the backfield
> tandem of Blanchard and Davis ran ramshackle over hapless Colgate 42-0
>
> He became so successful at it that he formed a group of over one hundred
> henchmen who ran ramshackle over the entire place.
>
> Others:
>
> I suspect that you were nearly a man of the cloth until your concupiscent
> nature ran ramshackle over your vocation.
>
> Before Bill de Blasio ran ramshackle over opponent Joe Lhota in the race
> for NYC mayor,…
>
> this society's post-World War II ideologies ran ramshackle over Kelley's
> youthful sensitivities
>
>
> —LH
>
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