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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I spotted this in a student essay last year.
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This is one of those classic eggcorns that people cite a lot when they write about this site elsewhere. It’s in the Database:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/32 … -purposes/
The commentary section for this Database entry is long and lively. Body massage comes up twice, for instance. Huh. Eggcorns never did me that much good.
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