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#1 2009-03-28 09:51:44

jorkel
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Registered: 2006-08-08
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Flash/fast forward to...

While writing an Email today I was momentarily flustered when trying to decide between “fast forward to…” and “flash forward to…” thinking that one was an eggcorn of the other. I concluded that both were perfectly good idioms in their own right—with hundreds of millions of Google hits each. However, I did wonder whether “flash forward” subliminally lead to the usage of “fast forward” in this context.

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