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Chris -- 2018-04-11
When I was a boy, I misheard people talking about “my-brain” headaches. I thought people of average intelligence got them from thinking too much. I finally got it straight when I saw the word “migraine” in print.
Strangely enough, with all the health-related eggcorns (sick-as-hell anemia, old timer’s disease, etc etc), I’ve never heard of anyone else who thought a migraine headache was a “my-brain” headache.
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Good one. We’ve also had mindgrade headaches and mind-grain headaches.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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