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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Holy granola, I found an eggcorn after years and YEARS of dry spell.
Scrolled off the user’s page but still in Google search results.
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“Achievement is overrated if you have to be accountable to plea beings.”
Lesser beings must always have to be pleading left and right.
Last edited by Craig C Clarke (2017-11-16 22:35:13)
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Good one.
I suppose that it is possible that this is a spell check correction. If only it weren’t a one-off, a Googlenonce.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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