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Chris -- 2018-04-11
David Bird and others have mentioned “in” << >> “and” confusion, including “case and point” for “case in point”. Here’s the example I stumbled upon recently:
Case and point, when Mr. Weill left Citigroup in 2006, the price per share was $55.
It seems to me that an eggcornish meaning confusion could be based upon this phrase’s similarity to phrases like “point and match” and “check and mate”. The implication of making a point in an argument (in both senses of the term) could, I think, give rise to “case and point” as a true eggcorn.
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That makes a lot of sense to me, Dixon. (It’s one of the so numberous cases where I see blending along with the eggcornicality.)
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Point, match and set figures in with the others, for me, and strike three and you’re out and doubtless others.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2013-11-23 17:28:05)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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