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Chris -- 2025-05-10
“deck aid” for “decade”
found this in one of my developmental writing courses at a local community college.
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Welcome to the forum, mikeinmiddleearth.
To be an eggcorn, a reshaped phrase has to make some kind of sense in context. I’m not sure how “deck aid” can be said to mean something similar to “decade.” It looks like a (rather astonishing) malaprop to me.
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