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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Google alleges five-million plus hits on this one. I got the giggles when a student’s movie review used the term; she defended it because she saw it on Facebook and a DVD sales site—that’s good enough for our young scholars. Marilyn
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This is a good one. We’ve had discussions here before on curling/curdling. See Joe’s 2007 contribution: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=1815
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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