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Chris -- 2018-04-11
8,910 Ghits. From a comment to a political blog about Mitt Romney:
“Hey, If a Scientologist was running for President, people would have the same intrepidation. I think more Americans know more about L. Ron Hubbard than they know about Joseph Smith. Alot of Christians still believe Mormans to be a cult.”
Also includes “Mormans,” which has been discussed on this forum before.
I don’t suppose this is really an eggcorn, but the writer evidently means “trepidation”; this is not a mistake for “intrepidity.” Is this perhaps an extension of the equivalence between “flammable” and “inflammable”?
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