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Chris -- 2018-04-11
An email from a friend had the phrase “I know you’d never stir me wrong.” and it seemed like more than a misspelling. Google turns up a few instances:
“So I knew he was never going to stir me wrong in the name of playing on my skin tone just to make a buck.”
http://www.independentconservative.com/2007/01/30/
“I just wanted a pet, and the people at the feed store stirred me wrong.”
http://sablechicken.blogspot.com/2005/1 … -name.html
It kind of makes sense, like you’re getting stirred around and pointed in the wrong direction.
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Yeah, and here’s the variation I just encountered:
As long as you have someone stirring the boat, shit can work just fine.
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I agree that this could be an eggcorn in some instances, especially when one considers the possible influence of “stirring the pot”.
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The 300 hits for stirring wheel suggest it might be a bum stir, all the same.
On the night before Christmas all through the house not a creature was steering, not even a mouse ðŸŽðŸŽ…ðŸ¼ðŸŽ„
http://www.pictame.com/user/jessica.wal … 1518351511
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