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Chris -- 2025-05-10
A few years ago before the qualification became well known I saw an apology in the Daily Telegraph explaining that the article on a previous day had meant to refer to NVQ’s not envy queues!
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Surely a transcription error rather than an eggcorn.
Unless the idea was to suggest that people with these qualifications may in fact be forming a queue out of envy of those with proper degrees!
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