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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I encountered this the other day:
I didn’t lead on that I had done extensive research beforehand and asked him flat out what the big difference between Samsung and Vizio was.
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It turns out that there are quite a few examples online, such as:
Jacob kept his cool all night and didn’t lead on that tonight was the night at all. Of course I didn’t have a clue
marriage discussion site
She didn’t lead on that there was any problem – that’s why it’s so shocking.
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I didn’t lead on that I really, really want to get married but this is now all I can think about and he isn’t doing anything!
marriage forum
The eggcornish meaning connection could be that “letting on” about something could be conceived as “leading (someone) on” to some information. I suspect that the perps are thinking of “lead” as being pronounced like “led”—hence the pronunciation confusion with “let”.
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