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Chris -- 2018-04-11
In an email:
Since Cambridge University Press books are redly available from various Russian websites, it will be widely read.
On Inet:
Sunscreen is redly available at drug stores and grocery stores. Another alternative to purchasing ready-made sunscreen is to simply make your own.
SpaceX. McGregor, TX, USMore Mcgregor jobs >. This position is responsible for ensuring that all parts and materials for fabrication & support requirements of the test site are redly available before work begins.
[towels:] we took our own, but are redly available at local shops for about 4 euros,
It seems quite widespread. Maybe there is a good solid connection with the meaning “redâ€, which would make it an eggcorn, but I haven’t caught on to it. In the second example one might expect “whitely†instead of redly, perhaps.
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The co-occurrence with read and ready in the first two examples was striking to me.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2018-02-19 17:45:21)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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