eggcorn sighting
Feb. 8th, 2004 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trocheeMy undergrad ment-ee just wrote the following very interesting eggcorn:
we start out with 585951 pain-stakingly hand-labeled data, and 738723 unlabeled data.
(bold mine).
I would bet my neat hat that this word comes from "pains-takingly". But I understand why he would decide it in this direction.
we start out with 585951 pain-stakingly hand-labeled data, and 738723 unlabeled data.
(bold mine).
I would bet my neat hat that this word comes from "pains-takingly". But I understand why he would decide it in this direction.
