[Ads-l] Reverse "mistake", v.?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Heh. It's all too real. As I posted on April 15:

>A guest with an authoritative demeanor on today's Morning Joe (MSNBC) said
that Officer Potter "may have mistaken her taser for her service weapon."

>If there was a mistake, it had to have been the opposite: she mistook the
handgun for the taser.

>Slip of the tongue? Or an emerging reversal like "to substitute for"?

JL

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