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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Hello.
I was doing a literature search today and came across a paper entitled “Childhood lead poisoning: the torturous path from science to policy [1].” I realized that this is an eggcorn, for while “torturous path” makes sense, the phrase really should be “tortuous path” meaning “full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked: a tortuous path” [2].
N’est pas?
[1] http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articl … d=16585952
[2] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tortuous
Chris
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