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Chris -- 2018-04-11
For /category/english/and-%c2%ab%c2%bb-inen/ :
Grading topology homework yesterday, I saw someone had written “Let X be the space and question and let …”.
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Searching Google Groups for
“the * and question” -insubject:question
will yield a number of results with lines like “the issue and question is whether…”, precisely this eggcorn.
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