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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The other day I stumbled upon this somewhere online:
Works great, trying to downside as I own two processors and want to sell one of them.
Since I’m afflicted with eggcorn fever, that triggered a feverish search of the ‘Net (searching on “to downside”), which yielded at least a couple dozen examples, such as:
I loved this amp, but I’ve got way too much stuff and have to downside.
YouTube video caption
Absolutely nothing wrong it . My older family member have to downside and can’t take it with them due to space.
Craigslist post
I just had too much gear so have to downside a little.
eBay listing
Seems eggcornish to me.
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Another side/size confusion.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Hotel Patria: The downsize is the breakfast room, its small.
The downsize is that block deduplication takes more processing power and requires a much larger index …
The downsize is you have a smaller sweet spot to hit the ball with
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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