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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I know it seems simple and not as exciting as the rest, but I couldn’t find that it had been entered so I thought I would submit it. I hear this said a lot for that patch of unpaved area between the opposite lanes of traffic. I suppose that it could be a slip, but I think the motivation is the same as all classic eggcorns: “median” is a much less used word, and “medium” implies the same “in between” sort of imagery. Yes, I know, the etymology of the words are the same, but the utterers don’t know that. Does that preclude it from being included?
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43 unique hits for “grassy medium.” Makes sense to me. Strangely, we’ve had “meridian” for “median,” but not—as far as I can tell—“medium.”
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And there’s the other ‘median.’ I got about 80 hits for either ‘mean, mode, medium’ or ‘mean, mode, and medium’.
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