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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I don’t know if this is a regional thing, in fact I would like to think that it has to do with the (in)famous Southern Drawl that some of my students have. But this is probably a (damn’) Yankee stereotype that I have. So I thought I would post it and see what people say.
Very often I get a nice email from a soon-to-be former student, asking me to “withdrawl” them from the class or to fill out a “withdrawl” slip.
I can’t see the alternative meaning in this one, so maybe it is not an eggcorn… Unless there is an alternative meaning that I am missing. I suppose that in the case of “withdrawal”, probably they are just leaving out the letters they didn’t pronounce. But where does the extra L on the verb “withdraw” come from? I am not sure.
polyglots of the world, unite ~ we have nothing to lose but our accents!
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