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#1 2010-02-18 14:56:21

vexact
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from an email by a magazine publisher "never seizes to amaze me"

she never seizes to amaze me, what
she did in life is unbelievable.

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#2 2010-02-18 15:46:54

DavidTuggy
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Re: from an email by a magazine publisher "never seizes to amaze me"

I’ve wondered about this one too. Is the “seizing” like a motor seizing up? Somehow seems a less ordinary image than “ceasing”, but but of course what’s ordinary for one person needn’t be for another. Still, these could easily be spell-checker-aided spelling malaprops. One where you wish you had a perp’s confession.


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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#3 2010-02-19 11:59:23

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
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Re: from an email by a magazine publisher "never seizes to amaze me"

There’s a discussion of cease/seize in our database:http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/351/seize/


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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