Okay, let me give the best 'worst excuse' I ever heard. A student said
he had to stay home and console his girlfriend, whose cat committed
suicide.
Larry Beason
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>>> "Stahlke, Herbert F.W." <[log in to unmask]> 12/14/06 1:36 PM >>>
"Ammonia", in this usage, is a variety of eggcorn, a very interesting
sort of confusion between words and/or spellings. If you'd like to
see
a lot of them and get some links to some fascinating discussion, try
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/
Herb
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
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Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:19 PM
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Subject: Creative excuses
A good holiday topic! Here's a creative comment, although not
etymologically based, from a student catching a few z's in the back
row,
when called out of his somnolent state: "I'm not sleeping. I just
blink
real slow!"
Geoff Layton
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>Subject: For you fans of folk etymology
>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:46:43 -0500
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>Student Excuse Awards: Best New Disease
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>My wife received this email:
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>
>
>Hello Mrs. Veit.
>
>How are you doing... I hope better than myself.
>
>I actually have a walking ammonia! No wonder I'm so ill right? I, of
>course, have doctors notes for you....
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>
>
>On the positive side, her windows are very clean.
>
>
>
>Dick Veit
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>Department of English
>University of North Carolina Wilmington
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