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roughshod » roughshot

Chiefly in:   run roughshot , ride roughshot

Classification: English – /t/-flapping

Spotted in the wild:

  • Middle class America did show this nation that the corporations and the wealthy in this country should no longer run roughshot, and legally outspend to purchase innocence. However, what will the ‘official Christian perspective’ say? (link)
  • Uh dude!!!! Ashcroft is not riding roughshot over state anything. Ashcroft is perfectly within his rights to order his subordinates (US Attorneys) to seek the death penalty. (TalkLeft, comment)
  • Faculty above the law? Administrators running roughshot over common sense rules? Libby thinks not! (Gettysburg College, Library pages)
  • The island from which Japanese fighters were able to run roughshot over Allied bombers on their way to Japan, now served as a safe haven for wounded planes returning from combat, saving (astonishingly) many more American lives than were cost in the battle. (link)

299 Google hits for _run roughshot_ and 99 hits for _ride roughshot_.

AHD4 defines _roughshod_:

> ADJECTIVE: 1. Shod with horseshoes having projecting nails or points to prevent slipping. 2. Marked by brutal force: Stalin’s roughshod treatment of the kulaks.
> IDIOM: _ride roughshod over_ To treat with brutal force: a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition.

| 1 comment | link | entered by Ben Zimmer, 2005/02/25 |

expatriate » expatriot

Variant(s):  ex-patriot; expatriotism

Classification: English

Spotted in the wild:

  • After a few days relaxing on the beach we headed inland to the beautifully maintained rain forests of Costa Rica. We rented a car (Toyota RAV4) and drove to the Monteverde Reserve - an area originally settled by expatriot Quakers who intentionally preserved a third of their land to leave wild. (link)
  • “I thought we could take part in our own ballot, which (British Prime Minister Tony) Blair is supposed to be organising next year. But as I live here it seems that’s not the case, so people like me are excluded,” said Barbara, an expatriot in her 60s from the Welsh city of Swansea. (AFP, via EU Business, UK, 2005/02/14)
  • The two Iraqi-born U.S. citizens traveled recently to the expatriot polling center in the Detroit suburb of Southgate to register. Dawoody says he won’t vote, but Mandwee is enthusiastic about it. (Kalamazoo Gazette, MI, USA, January 26, 2005)
  • Simone’s story is an often-told one, so I won’t belabor you with rehashing her legendary irascibleness or her protest of American policies as a long-standing exile as an ex-patriot in Paris, but if you are interested in that stuff, follow the link below. (link)
  • One Glendale man took part in this historic vote by casting his ballot in California Sunday. Although, the drive was approximately 14 hours roundtrip, Hussan Altaee felt it was well worth it. Hussan left Iraq 15 years ago to become a refugee in Saudi- Arabia then a U.S. Citizen and Iraqi ex-patriot. (KPHO Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2005/01/30)
  • Expatriotism is not enough… […] She’s always had the shimmering glamour of an expatriot, but now I have more! My city is cooler than yours! […] On the subject of expatriotism. I never realised I was one until I went home for Christmas this winter. [….] I have begun to detest being a foreigner here even though it sometimes feels every other person in London is from elsewhere. But being an expatriot is infinitely worse. […] The worst kind of expatriot is the expatriot journalist, or foreign correspondent - they are not merely arrogant and patronising but they spread their expatriot views for a job! The best kind of expatriot is your grandfather’s cousin who left for America in 1888 and hasn’t been heard from since. (link)

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| 2 comments | link | entered by Chris Waigl, 2005/02/25 |

copy writer » copyrighter

Variant(s):  copy righter

Classification: English

Spotted in the wild:

  • Andrew is 22 and is from Glasgow. He has been a freelance copyrighter for the past 2 years, but is considering going back to university to study communication and mass media. (BBC Talents)
  • God this is a crap website. You should consider getting it redesigned by professionals. Your content is lacking in structure and is gramatically incorrect in parts. I suggest a copy righter be used in future. (comment on a blog)
  • Discover how to become an effective internet copyrighter. Download this free eBook to your PC. (2createawebsite.com)
  • Basically I am a one man shop, but for a couple of bigger projects I have lined up I am playing around with the idea of outsourcing a graphic designer and a copyrighter. (link)

Analyzed or reported by:

There seems to be an increasing conflation between _copyright_ and _copywriting_ (the occupation of a _copy writer_). The examples above all use _copyrighter_ where there reference is a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy.

In other cases _copyrighter_ is used in the sense of _copyright holder_, but most of these writers appear to be non-native speakers.

See copyright»copywrite.

| 1 comment | link | entered by Chris Waigl, 2005/02/25 |

copyright » copywrite

Classification: English

Spotted in the wild:

  • A few years ago, the Federal Communications Commission tried to force use of the “broadcast flag” on the manufacturers of any device that could theoretically play copywrite-protected media. (link)
  • All of our images are copywrite protected and watermarked, although the purchased images will not be. (link)
  • starting today, i need to put copywrite on my snapshots.. (link)
  • still being relatively new to the title, I’m finding myself asking questions that are not gonna be answered unless I go back-issuing (copywrite, me, 2005) […] Story is less superhero-y (i’d copywrite that, but it’s pretty shitty, so I’m leaving it wide open to y’all — go for it) than most DC stuff I’m reading (link)
  • That being the case, I request that any use of these materials be cited, but withhold copywrite protection for any non-profit or academic uses, either within the Marshall Islands, or elsewhere. (A Survey of Marshallese Nutrition)
  • www.21c-online.com is published and Copyrighted 2000 by OnLine Publications.com, Inc., Miami, Florida. (link)
  • Disputes involving domains that are copywritten and/or trademarked are handled through the ICANN approved UDRP. These complaints will be handled by an approved third party arbitrator and GKG is required to abide by this decision. This policy cannot be used for non-copywritten or trademarked domains. (link)
  • If a user of the site is sharing copywritten works they do not have permission to share, they are breaking US laws by doing so. […] Recently I have even begun filtering searches for obvious copywritten titles in order to curb this abuse of the site. The problem with peer-to-peer file sharing is that there is no way to find out if what a user is sharing is copywritten (and done so without permission) without actually downloading the content from them. (Techreview.com)

Analyzed or reported by:

_Copywrite_ is employed as a modifier, a noun, or a denominal verb (in the sense, register/display a copyright (notice)). Eggcorn users run into problems when they need the past participle of the verb: both, _copywrited_ and _copywritten_ are common.

Occasionally, we encounter the a stray _copywright_:

> Besides, the notion of “harmonizing patent laws” rings more of globalism and consistency than copywright infringement. (link)

This may be a hypercorrection (see _playwright»playwrite_)

See also copy writer»copyrighter.

| 1 comment | link | entered by Chris Waigl, 2005/02/25 |

mind » mine

Chiefly in:   open-mined , go through one's mine

Classification: English – questionable – final d/t-deletion

Spotted in the wild:

  • CWM (Christian Witch Ministry) is Spiritualy open mined to all things. (link)
  • William Hodge, a former UW-Oshkosh anthropology professor, says there are natural explanations for most phenomena, but he remains open-mined. (link)
  • It is hereby declared that the Carleton University Debating Society exists to the following ends: * To foster clearheaded and open-mined discussion among the individuals, communities, and organizations of Carleton University on issues relating to Carleton University, the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and the World; (link)
  • The city becomes an multicultural city and is the most open-mined city in Australia as the city welcomes different races, cultures, classes, and sexualities from many parts of the world, it is most agreed that it is one of the most livable city in the world. (link)
  • I would offer advice but truth be known, fishing interests me just slightly less than football. But something else runs through my mine now. I am fascinated by their own sense of cohesiveness, achieved just moments before the actual departure and long before the weekend itself begins. (link)

I originally thought this was just a typo often committed by writers of personal ads and followers of alternative spiritual paths, but it’s use is apparently a lot more widespread than that - I found it on government sites, debate clubs, travel guides, etc. There is an actual mining term “open mine” which gives the mis-uses a plausible origin, but while “open mine” is not rare, the phrase “open mined” does not appear to be a common form of the phrase in the context of mining.

[update] Thanks for feedback from David Romano, who discovered several hundred occurrences of the phrases “running through my mine”, “going through my mine” and “on my mined”. He confirmed that a large number of these are “mind” related. A large % of these usages are either in transcriptions of song lyrics or in the context of urban slang so the spelling could be intentional. Perhaps we can attribute the origins of this back to Mark Twain, who in his short story “A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It” (1892) has one of his characters say “dey’s somefin on my mine”.

[added by Arnold Zwicky, 22 July 2007] Frank McQuarry writes with an occurrence of “of like mine”: Where else will you see this picture? This was done on July 14th and today being the 22nd and I have yet to have seen this image any place else. Of course I will pass it on but to whom . . . To folks of like mine. So here we are again preaching to the choir. (link)

| 2 comments | link | entered by vinylrake, 2005/02/25 |
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