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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Seemed that with mirrors and optics than identical images were made thus splitting image
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As you probably know, “sptting image” is commonly taken to be an eggcorn of “spit ‘n’ image,” where both “spit” and “image” mean “exact likeness.” That “spit” has been used by itself to mean “likeness” is certain. What’s less certain is where this usage of “spit” comes from, and whether it has anything to do with “saliva.”
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Here’s the address for the Database article on “spitting image” that Fishbait was referring to:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/33 … ing-image/
The comments to that article are also worth looking at; the first, third and fourth comments there address the “splitting image” variant.
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