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Chris -- 2018-04-11
What fun . . eggcorns are interesting me as I discover how many of them are closely related to the original phrases and useful and vivid in their own rights . . .I remembered a tiny one from my brief moment as a high school teacher:
“For all intensive purposes” the [problems, subjects, something] are the same. {from a particularly earnest, serious student, fairly “intensive” herself}
I return to browsing now, with thanks for the fun.
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