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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Over 2000 hits. Seems like a misspelling driven by Americans’ voicing of intervocalic “t,” rather than an eggcorn – so it goes down here.
This one is all over the political blogs. “Abedding” terrorists might at first blush seem like a way of aiding them. On the other hand, a terrorist with a really busy social life might not be able to perpetrate as much terror. Examples:
The War on Terror has not only dwarfed the War on Drugs, it’s kind of sort of aiding and abedding the drug “bad guysâ€.
http://nmallory.exit-23.net/tag/Taliban
but it seems the press is above getting charged with treason for aiding and abedding the terrorists by giving them tips like—change your phone quick they are listening…
http://blogswarm.blogdrive.com/archive/853.html
Germany, France and Russia are now brow beating both Syria and Iran, instead of aiding and abedding.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/2/27/18267/8374
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