[Ads-l] Eggcorn database?

[Chris Waigl]

... aaaaand we are back. Our MySQL password was weak and needed replacing
with a proper one.

Chris

On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 10:33 PM Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:

> 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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