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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This is the return ticket for mattpostgate’s ‘molten’ for ‘molting’ and to which I would have tagged this had I been able to access it – it seems to have disappeared. If moulting/molting is the periodic shedding of feathers or skin, it is possible for an eggcornee to assume the earth itself is having a periodic molt when lava is moltin’/molten:
In the cases in the museum were shells of people who tried to escape the black, hot, molting lava and were engulfed. You have never seen in all of your life …
www.voiceoftheevangelists.com/LinkClick … =484…36.
Even the dark river burns as if a column of molting lava as it sweeps past my house. The last two evenings even the sky has turned colors of pink, ...
www.nhfishandwildlife.com/diary-post.ph … e=197&year
29 May 2003 … It errupted every ten minutes, spitting out moulting lava all over the crater. It was unbelievible until the wind changed. ...
discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/.../03/sp_tv_wright052903.htm
They dodged moulted lava and swampy pits until they finally got to a dark cave. It seemed to be the only way through the valley despite its lack of comfort …
www.quizilla.com/stories/.../the-mounta … ersevenagt
Finally, turn the VCO Master frequency potemtiometer to about 25 Hz : you should hear the sound of molted lava coming out of a Volcano.. :). Questions : ...
www.angelfire.com/music2/theanalogcottage/chapt2.htm
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We sometimes need to go through the search function on the Forum page to find these references. Don’t know why. Here is the citation you were looking for: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2021
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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