# Mis-entrenchment of codified blendings

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The piece uses a persistent misunderstanding of trophy wife to argue that speakers can privately misconstrue entrenched lexical and grammatical constructions.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 June 2007

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 6 June 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: grammar, semantics, language-learning, conceptual-blending.

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