Date:  Sun, 25 Jan 1998 14:49:47 -0500
From:  Gerald Cohen <gcohen[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UMR.EDU>
Subject: syntactic blends

  For subscribers interested in syntactic blends, here are two I noticed
in recent newspaper items:

1) '"Everybody's sitting back and waiting to see where it's all going to
pan out".'---blended from "...where it's all going to lead" and "whether
it's all going to pan out." -- (in _Wall Street Journal_, January 7, 1998,
Sec. B., p.1/3. article title: "HDTV Sets Too Pricey, Too Late?")

2) '"That's the how you got along".'---blended from "That's how you got
along" and "That's the way you got along." --spoken by Monica Lewinsky in a
taped conversation with Linda Tripp. The context as presented in the
newspaper is (with three dots and "sic" in the article): 'LEWINSKY: "I was
brought up with lies all the time...that's the (sic) how you got along...I
have lied my entire life".'--- (in _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_, January 25,
1998, Sec. A. p.7/5-7; article title: "White House Sex Allegations:
Excerpts of the Tapes.")

--Gerald Cohen

gcohen[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]umr.edu