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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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she never seizes to amaze me, what
she did in life is unbelievable.
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I’ve wondered about this one too. Is the “seizing†like a motor seizing up? Somehow seems a less ordinary image than “ceasingâ€, 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* .
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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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