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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Hey ***, I thought I’d confess in you a little, you know. I have a secret that I’d like you to know.
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Don’t ask too many questions about her life too unless she wants to confess in you.
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Or maybe he will confess in you about the letter because you two are friends and you’re gay?
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That is why it is at this point in my blog I feel that I must confess in you.
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Sir, may I confess in you something? I think you are very handsome. This is a bonus because I do not trust Ugly Men, as I myself am an Ugly Man.
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The potential for eggcornish meaning-confusion between “confess” and “confide” is obvious. I suppose it’s not inconceivable that some perps may actually mean “confess” in these examples but be unclear that “to”, not “in”, is the proper preposition in this context. The picture is complicated by the fact that some of these perps used the word “confide” properly in the same paragraph.
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The sounds of “confess” and “confide” seem a little too far apart to be an eggcorn.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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kem wrote:
The sounds of “confess” and “confide” seem a little too far apart to be an eggcorn.
You’re probably right, although I would say that there’s a wide grey area within which reasonable eggcornistas may disagree on where to draw the line.
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