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Chris -- 2018-04-11
not an eggcorn but still I was rather surprised to come across this misspelling. I googled it and there were quite a lot of hits.
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At least it indicates the person knows where the original word comes from.
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So which is better, to say Trojan Horse while you don’t know why it’s called that, or Troyan horse because you do?
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I found one possible case of Trudging Horse, but it is likely to be purposeful (e.g. a pun). Plenty of literally intended examples, of course.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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