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part and parcel » part in parcel

Classification: English – and «» in/en

Spotted in the wild:

  • “(Co-curricular activities) are part in parcel with the educational experience at U-M,” Wilson said. (Univ. of Michigan Daily Online, Sep. 20, 1996)
  • The words consensus and socius, among others, which occur often in edicts and rescripts, are part in parcel of the working of the bureaucracy to achieve consensus by implying it already existed. (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Oct. 15, 2001)
  • As any new homeowner can attest, property rights come part in parcel with property responsibilities. (Yale Free Press, Nov. 2004)

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| comment | link | entered by Ben Zimmer, 2005/07/16 |

tongue in cheek » tongue and cheek

Variant(s):  tongue-and-cheek

Classification: English – and «» in/en

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| comment | link | entered by Ben Zimmer, 2005/07/16 |

case in point » case and point

Variant(s):  case-and-point

Classification: English – and «» in/en

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Also occasionally inverted to point and case.

| comment | link | entered by Ben Zimmer, 2005/07/16 |

up and coming » up incoming

Variant(s):  up-incoming

Classification: English – and «» in/en

Spotted in the wild:

  • The modernization of Jesus Christ Superstar could be an up incoming idea. (ShowMag, Aug. 2003)
  • What can out do a five star break-through piece by the up-incoming Ben Lee? (Rhode Island College Anchor, Jan. 27, 2004)
  • The Century City Film Festival, “Where the truly awesome indie film competes against the truly awful;” launches a contest to find an up-incoming commercial director to create a 30 second commercial spot to advertise the festival. (MovieBytes, May 24, 2004)
  • Founded in 2000 by Napo Masheane, the mission of KAT is to provide a space of self-identification and self-expression for up-incoming artists to create and perform socially conscious art. (Africa Pulse, Feb. 4, 2005)
  • I hope this is allowed, but I wanted to tell you about this up incoming Pittsburgh Band. (City of Pittsburgh LiveJournal, Jun. 13, 2005)

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Another and/in/en confusion to go along with off the beat and path, once and a while, by enlarge, etc.

| comment | link | entered by Ben Zimmer, 2005/07/10 |

spit and image » spitting image

Classification: English – questionable – nearly mainstream – and «» in/en

Originally entered by xerby, who commented:

Just a phrase, “spitting image”, I’d heard for about forty years. And then one day someone on the radio said “spit and image” which immediately made more sense to me. In the first we could easily visualize a boy picking up his father’s bad habits(spitting…like mothers don’t spit), or if you’ve ever seen a boy walking with his dad you’d see the same gait(as well as image). In the second instance, “spit” infers a more visceral, biological, connection. And, of course, the visual “image” stays as part of the phrase.

Most major dictionaries report that spitting image is an alteration of spit and image. In an article in American Speech, however, Larry Horn argues that the expression was originally spitten image (spitten being a now-archaic dialectal form of the past participle of spit), and that both spit and image and spitting image are later reinterpretations. (The American Speech link requires a subscription to Project Muse — see also Michael Quinion’s summary at World Wide Words).

Horn’s article also discusses various eggcornish reanalyses of in/and/-in’/-en, some of which appear elsewhere in the database (e.g., off the beat and path, once and a while).

| 6 comments | link | entered by Ben Zimmer, 2005/05/04 |
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