TammyM wrote:
> On 4 Mar 2007 19:05:09 GMT, Blinky the Shark >
> wrote:
>
>>TammyM wrote:
>>> On 4 Mar 2007 18:49:25 GMT, Blinky the Shark >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Kate B wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> "TammyM" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:27:37 -0700, Christine Dabney
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>><snip to get to point>
>>>>>>> Yeah. Me too. Next time, I'll have a different vessel in which to do
>>>>>> the roux. I ended up having to transfer the whole kitten kaboodle
>>>>>> into my 12-quart stock pot!
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you mean *kit and caboodle*? If not what the heck is a "kitten
>>>>> kaboodle"?
>>>>
>>>>It might be an eggcorn.
>>>>
>>>>http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/
>>>
>>> Hey Blinky, thanks for posting this! I love the subject of
>>> language/language evolution (or, in some cases, devolution). I'll
>>> check it out further.
>>
>>My pleasure. So do I.
>
> Have you read the one by Bill Bryson, _The Mother Tongue: English and
> How It Got That Way_? It's a good'un.

Long time ago, yeah. I used to have four bookshelves' worth of
reference books just on language.


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