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07-02-2008, 04:25 AM
I've been collecting these, mostly from student stories. They look superficially like old-time conflations of similar words, but I think they are the first best guesses of spell-check systems, blindly accepted by writers, who may have the "correct while typing" option checked. Eventually the homonym will take over, if spell checkers like it better. That seems (if my students are a guide) to be already happening with "breaks" for the thing that stops a car and "peak" for a quick glimpse (and also "peek" for "acme").
Left it in tact
take a peak/the music peeked
didn=t phase me
take a new tact
Applied the breaks
Leeched out all the salt
Pealing back the skin
he sited this as evidence of bad behavior
pour over her books
the want adds
In the throws of love
she tip-towed downstairs
coming strait toward her
incredibly pain-staking work
...just to start with.
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Left it in tact
take a peak/the music peeked
didn=t phase me
take a new tact
Applied the breaks
Leeched out all the salt
Pealing back the skin
he sited this as evidence of bad behavior
pour over her books
the want adds
In the throws of love
she tip-towed downstairs
coming strait toward her
incredibly pain-staking work
...just to start with.
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