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Chris -- 2018-04-11
not much is more annoying than someone saying “honing-in” on something…it should be “homing-in”, as in a “homing device” or “homing pigeon”...you can “hone-down”, but you can’t “hone-in”...Yes?
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The home>>hone substitution is already in the Database: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/48/hone/.
David
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