On Nov 1, 2006, at 11:09 AM, dc wrote:
Does this qualify as an eggcorn? I ask because my last contributions
to Andrew's collection were rejected by the jury.
We have a current (and totally ridiculous) trade mark fight under
weigh here.
Dennis
Indeed it is! I must have missed it. It's a highly unusual one, because
normally an eggcorn substitutes a common word for a rarer one, and this
eggcorn does the reverse.
The implied nautical idea doesn't work because to weigh an anchor means
to take up its weight by lifting it off the bottom. And though an
anchor can be weighed thus, a ship cannot, except perhaps in drydock.
"Under weigh" makes no sense.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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