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#1 2008-06-13 23:34:02

jorkel
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WAITING pool (wading)

Perhaps some people are totally unfamiliar with the term “wading.” So, a “wading pool” might be mistaken to be a “waiting pool”—a pool where kids wait while the adults use the big pool.
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#2 2008-06-16 13:12:10

TootsNYC
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Registered: 2007-06-19
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Re: WAITING pool (wading)

When I was a kid, I thought it was the “waiting” pool—because the moms all waited on the sides while the little kids played in the shallow water.

It took me a long time to figure out the word “wading”—and even longer to realize that it applied to the “pool”—proof to me, now, that eggcorns persist because they are so THOROUGHLY accepted.

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