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#1 2010-04-28 19:44:08

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
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"go array" as a blend between awry and astray

Yesterday on the radio, there was an interview of a child star from “Diff’rent Strokes” who got into drugs and then cleaned up his life and wrote a book about it. He said that despite what you might think, there weren’t many child actors who “went array”. I think it was a blend of going awry and going astray. Not common.

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He made the world dance to his numbers but he went array at one point of time in his career.

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#2 2011-11-07 16:30:32

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
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Re: "go array" as a blend between awry and astray

Heard this same slip at the kitchen table today. “Go array.” It may be just a misspelling, and it may be a blend. But I can also see a semantic nudging. To go awry is to lose one’s focus, to spread out (in an array) one’s objectives and results.


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#3 2011-11-07 16:47:45

David Bird
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Re: "go array" as a blend between awry and astray

Hmm, might it be being nudged by “away” as well?

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