From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix style
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 20:35:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140803003558.GK15007@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201408030015.s730FRbt025453@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu>
Doug McIlroy scripsit:
> (COuld "reigning in" somehow have been implanted by this
> headline that I saw in The Economist a few days ago:
> "The reign in Maine is easy to explain"?)
It's a pretty common malapropism nowadays; almost 6M Google hits.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
It's the old, old story. Droid meets droid. Droid becomes chameleon.
Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back
again. It's a classic tale. --Kryten, Red Dwarf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-03 0:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-03 0:15 Doug McIlroy
2014-08-03 0:30 ` Steve Nickolas
2014-08-03 0:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-03 0:56 ` John Cowan
2014-08-03 0:35 ` John Cowan [this message]
2014-08-03 0:38 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-08-04 19:02 ` scj
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