[Ads-l] “Blind-sighted”

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

blindsided >> blindsighted
was mentioned a few times in the Eggcorn forum.
But it does not seem to be listed in the Eggcorn Database.

Here are two threads from 2006 and 2007 respectively:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1050
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4592

Prof. Paul Brians has an entry for "blindsighted" on his website of
"Common Errors in English Usage":
https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/19/blindsighted/

Garson

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 1:54 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> New to me though it seems to have been in use as a “pun” before. Op-ed from
> S. E. Cupp of the Tribune Content agency “Couric is a Cautionary Tale”
>
> Why, for example, would she needlessly bash Deborah Norville, whom Couric
> replaced at the “Today” show?
>
> Norville, herself blind-sighted by the digs, told another newspaper, “I’m
> really too stunned and, frankly, hurt to comment.”
>
> --
> Andy Bach
> Afbach at gmail.com
> Not at my desk
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