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#1 2007-03-27 15:32:49

JoakimZiegler
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Registered: 2007-03-18
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foul hearty for foolhardy

Browsing comments in a blog at http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=3996#comments (warning, might not be SFW, main blog post about child abuse), I came across the expression “foul hearty” where the poster obviously meant “foolhardy”. The transition is interesting, from something foolishly brave to an expression that, to me at least, implies something more intentionally evil, having a “foul heart”.

On google, “foul hearty” gets 8 hits, at least a few of which are the eggcorn. “foulhearty” in one word gets 2 hits.

Interestingly, Google suggested “foolhearty”, and searching for that gives more than 900 hits. From a quick scan, all of them seem to be eggcorns for “foolhardy”.

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