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#1 2006-04-20 13:29:28

drshi
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Registered: 2006-04-20
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"intestinal track" for "intestinal tract"

This one’s ubiquitous

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#2 2006-04-21 10:49:25

patschwieterman
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Re: "intestinal track" for "intestinal tract"

This is already in the Eggcorn Database under “tract>track.”

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#3 2006-04-21 11:06:23

drshi
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Re: "intestinal track" for "intestinal tract"

Sorry—I searched “intestinal”

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#4 2006-05-02 11:00:11

Laura
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Re: "intestinal track" for "intestinal tract"

I see this a lot for urinary tract as well. As in a “Urinary Track Infection”.

 

#5 2013-09-03 03:47:30

Dixon Wragg
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From: Cotati, California
Registered: 2008-07-04
Posts: 1375

Re: "intestinal track" for "intestinal tract"

And here’s something similar I stumbled upon online recently:

It admitted that Area 51, located on a vast track of government land 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, really does exist.

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