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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“The early signs of these mites are legions along the margin of the leaves.” (http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/plants/prayer-p … ea/316203/) This could be a spelling mistake, but I think it is a new eggcorn. Given that a legion could consist of up to 6000 men (Wikpedia) a badly affected plant might suffer from legions of lesions?
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Sometimes you can locate a few more usages if you Google with a strategically constructed phrase. I extracted the below items using “with legions on” (including the quotation marks). Even so, for your find to qualify as an eggcorn, it would have to have been conjured up with some type of mistaken imagery on the part of the misquoter. Otherwise it would most likely fall in the malapropism category.
(I would also point out that there are probably as many interesting uses of “lesion” in place of “legion.” In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to find “Lesionaire’s disease.” Here, for instance, the imagery would be that of a disease accompanied by lesions).
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Round the World with Rossi & J – Free Travelogue, Travel Blog a…
It was a bit sad when we saw some of the younger kids with legions on their arms from HIV – it brings it home how sad this place can be. ...
http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?act ... ry&diary_id=141825&go=rossijay
Drink this…: A cure for this…?
We are informed of how dangerous it was, told stories of monkey bites and shown horrible pictures of people with legions on their face. ...
http://drinkthis.typepad.com/main/2004/ … _this.html
PSI COUNSEL “Superbowl Steve” interview
... forests and wilderness areas because of fires, sick fish with legions on them, deer tick, Lyme Disease, and bad water. There will be many forest fires. ...
http://www.psicounsel.com/news/steve2.html
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