Discussions about eggcorns and related topics
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Chris -- 2011-03-08
Recently encountered: “Some people are broader line illiterate.” I suppose if you draw a broader line for a border line, you would include them?
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Nice find. I wouldn’t have anticipated this switch. Seems like “broader line X” is well-attested on the web. See this search and this search.
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If read in the nautical sense this variant would be nicely eggcornish, but I fear it is no more than a common mis-spelling.
Being on the boarder line between the Greek and Turkish sides, if ever there is a solution, the city will be the centre of commerce between the two sides.
It was something that the Russians wanted to retain when the boarder line was defined. So a small area of land around the church remains …
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