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Chris -- 2025-05-10
the phrase ‘ebb and flow’ sometimes shows up as ‘ebon flow;’ this seems to be especially common when there is some sort of negative meaning, linked to the pejorative nature of darkness in English. a “dark flow” ?
you’ll see the ebon flow of the war going on
http://www.tentonhammer.com/daoc/interv … u-aug-2010
a predictable ebon flow of how Iranian citizens in the streets there have viewed the ability of people to change things in their country
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A beautiful eggcorn, tpeckinpaugh. I count about 26 unique hits on Google.
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