Actually, no. It should be "they have striven greatly..."

Horace


On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:36:37 -0400, you wrote:

>I have been seeing so many eggcorns on this list lately that I have 
>decided to correct them. I'm not out to embarrass anybody, so all 
>citations will be uncredited and as brief as possible.
>
>If you don't know what an eggcorn is, check out 
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
>
>Today's eggcorn:
>
>they have made great strives to make sure you can use old programs on 
>the new gear.
>
>Should be "great strides."
>
>Andrew Stiller
>Kallisti Music Press
>http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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