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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Found here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comme … 0x/c0vzn8y
“curving your appetite” in place of “curbing”
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Welcome to the forum, runningforyourlife. Curb>>curve is a classic eggcorn, and it’s already in the Database, here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/1072/curve/
But the best discussion of how people might justify the substitution of “curve” for “curb” is in this (longish) forum thread: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … p?pid=7169
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