[Ads-l] Murphy's Law

[Mark Mandel]

"In" for "and" would be a really farfetched typo, not ordinary at all. Your
second hypothesis is much stronger: that it's a recognition (ASR) error,
what at Dragon Systems we called a *recco*. (I was Senior Linguist there
for 12 years.) But I agree with you that neither of these makes sense, and
so are almost certainly not eggcorns. Imho the same goes for Ben's &
James's other examples.

Mark Mandel

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020, 12:49 PM Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:

> “Left in right” just looks like an ordinary typo to me, possibly resulting
> from a software speech recognition error.  I would also question whether
> some of the other examples, particularly “neck in neck,” are really
> eggcorns.
>

John Baker
>
>
> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of Ben
> Zimmer
> Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2020 2:05 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Murphy's Law
>
> It goes along with eggcorns like "part in parcel," "by in large," "neck in
> neck," "day in age," "front in center," and "one in the same."
>
> https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/category/english/and-«»-inen/<
> https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/category/english/and-«»-inen>
>
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 11:00 AM Nancy Friedman <wordworking at gmail.com
> <mailto:wordworking at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> > "Left in right" is what caught this former newspaper copyeditor's eye.
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, 5:07 AM James A. Landau <jjjrlandau at gmail.com
> <mailto:jjjrlandau at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > > http://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2020/06/06/roberts-place-margate/<
> http://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2020/06/06/roberts-place-margate>
> > >
> > > (Murphy is the Governor of New Jersey)
> > >
> > > "As absurd as it sounds, protesters, looters and rioters are violating
> > > Murphy’s Law left in right in New Jersey, but now Attorney General
> Gurbir
> > > Grewal is cracking down on Robert’s Place in Margate. "
>

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