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(a)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