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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Somebody talking about internet access:
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However, both are contention based, i.e. you share your bandwidth with everyone else hence real speeds may not bare any relationship to quoted speeds.
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Is this just a slip or …..
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I’m reminded of Chris Waigl’s discussion of the opposite substitution in The Eggcorn Database.
The substitution of the homophone bear for bare is a very productive source of erroneous spellings. Not all of these will be eggcorns: many may be glitches produced during a moment of distraction.
If bare any relationship is not a slip, what imagery do you think the person who produced it could have had in mind?
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Expose or reveal ? He is still active on the board where I saw it so I could ask him.
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Ask him what..? He has something in his mind…
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