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Chris -- 2025-05-10
A friend of mine with less-than-perfect spelling mentioned a false positive search result for “CDC”. It was the “center for decease control”. One of his usual typos, I thought. But with another moment’s thought, it made sense.
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See also our discussion on “heart decease.”
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Google shows me about a dozen occurrences, some translated from Chinese (so they don’t count). I blame this, like most eggcorns, on spelling checkers.
And now that I mention it, he may just be reporting his search results verbatim, rather than mangling it on his own.
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