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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I encountered this usage today at Yahoo! Answers (source of all that is good in the world) and looking into it led me here.
One example:
“what was the torcher that they used in the Salem witch trials??”
Eggcorn, or misspelling? Of course, I chose an example that seems to support the eggcorn conclusion :-) But there are, I am sad to report, many, many, many, many more…
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