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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I just read this in an article and it didn’t seem to be merely a typo so did some googling and found a few other sources. Google show ~5000 results for “stuck in a rot” and many of them seem unintentional.
http://www.techfounder.net/2016/02/11/b … ostmortem/
We were stuck in a rot.
https://www.quora.com/How-can-an-inexpe … -for-a-job
... due to my low level of expertise I was stuck in a rot.
http://baronessj.com/2015/09/03/8-signs … ationship/
... too familiar with each other and gotten stuck in a rot.
https://richarddawkins.net/2015/01/tsip … ical-oath/
(in the comments section)
The EU is undeniably stuck in a rot with the “debt problemâ€...
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Very nice, jdmnd.
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What wonders hath man rot? (The discussion in the database on this entry is way too sparse: the semantic connection between wrought iron and rotting is far from clear. But being stuck in a rut is almost certain to produce rotting of some sort. Your find is clearly an eggcorn: the one in the database is not.)
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Welcome to the Forum.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2016-02-13 09:21:35)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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