Friday, January 26, 2007

And Another

I'm on a roll! In a...er...limited sort of way.

"Typerope."

I really did hear an adult say this the other day. On the radio. On NPR, too, not the college "training" type station.

I also saw a teaser the other day for the local TV news that stated "housing faulters." One of those items that's confusing because it looks like it almost makes sense as it stands.

3 comments:

argotnaut said...

I have no idea what a housing faulter is supposed to be.

Typerope -- was this a single occurrence? Because that sounds a lot like a common speech error to me (they're anticipating the second [p] sound).

liz said...

Well, it was a single occurrence in that they only said the word once, if that's what you're getting at. Yes, it's common-- I've heard people say it many times. And I forgot to "collect" it until now!

liz said...

I thought "housing faulter" was a noun, too, at first sight (one who faults housing?), but it refers to housing (the market) FALtering.