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Chris -- 2018-04-11

#1 2006-08-01 22:14:11

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"point a view" for "point of view"

From a review on Amazon.com:

“Yes, Maureen Dowd has a point a view – that’s why her columns appear on the op-ed page of the New York Times, not as front page “factual” news.”

I found this one difficult to credit, but Googling reveals that it is very common. Unfortunately Google doesn’t distinguish between “point a view” and sequences like “point. a view. . . ” so it’s hard to quantify.

Perhaps not an eggcorn, because not a lexical reshaping—what could “point a view” possibly mean?

David F.

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