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"""Mondegreens.
---
layout: post
source: Garner's Modern American Usage
source_url: http://bit.ly/1T4alrY
title: mondegreens
date: 2014-06-10 12:31:19
categories: writing
---
Points out preferred form.
"""
from proselint.tools import memoize, preferred_forms_check
@memoize
def check(text):
"""Suggest the preferred forms."""
err = "misc.mondegreens"
msg = "'{}' is the preferred form."
list = [
["a girl with kaleidoscope eyes", ["a girl with colitis goes by"]],
["a partridge in a pear tree", ["a part-red gingerbread tree"]],
["attorney and notary public", ["attorney and not a republic"]],
["beck and call", ["beckon call"]],
["for all intents and purposes", ["for all intensive purposes"]],
["laid him on the green", ["Lady Mondegreen"]],
["all of the other reindeer", ["Olive, the other reindeer"]],
["to the manner born", ["to the manor born"]],
]
return preferred_forms_check(text, list, err, msg)
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