On 31 Jan 2007 at 22:22, Mark D Lew wrote: > On Jan 31, 2007, at 10:52 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > Did you consider trying a little Googling to see if your gut belief > > was true? Why would a died-in-the-wool PC user assume that his > > guesses about the Mac would be correct? > > Unless the PC users have been smothered in a pile of sweaters, I > think I spot an eggcorn!
Actually, that *doesn't* count as an eggcorn -- it's just a brain- fart typo, since I know the correct spelling for dyed-in-the-wool. The definition of an eggcorn is that the wrong spelling has been justified by some line of reasoning that is plausible enough to convince the user of the eggcorn that the spelling is correct. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
