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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Seen in a Marketwatch.com reader comment space about a certain Presidential candidate’s question-answering abilities:
ask 2 guestion in a roll he losses it
Of course ignoring all the other errors, “in a roll” (meaning sequentially) in place of “in a row” (sequentially) classifies as an eggcorn, I think.
Last edited by instarx (2008-08-08 06:14:40)
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And there’s the “on a roll” idiom—if he asks 2 question in a row, is he on a roll?
lots o’ hits!
<i>
Spikers win two in a roll as they prepare for off week
VOLLEYBALL: Team to defend undefeated record in Pasadena Wednesday night.—- The Union Online
http://media.www.elcaminouniononline.co … 2194.shtml
though I think this one may be tongue in cheek
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu … =172898228
And it’s not just America—this person is a British soccer fan:
</i>ManU is the only fear to Chelsea’s title ambitions….Fulham, makes it two in a roll for Man U!</i>
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A29477037
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