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Chris -- 2011-03-08
Someone mentioned to me that she’d always thought it was “ease dropping”. I told her she’d always been wrong. She laughed.
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Your friend isn’t alone. I’m not sure how to justify it in eggcorn terms, but it’s relatively common—over 600 Google hits. Examples:
I just lovelovelove all that kitschy stuff that you find in touristy places, and you can get some fabulous easedropping done, too.Anthony I feel as if I am easedropping on the conversations here.
http://www.digitalimagecafe.com/view_ph … ?src=23246
Apparently it was a big deal because of international maritime law to regularly demonstrate our rights,also we were to do electronic easedropping .
http://www.vietnamviews.org/story.cfm?storyID=282
They used easedropping technics to snoop on people like Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2001o … 008553.htm
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