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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Is this an egg corn? It should be a fine-tooth comb, of course, so there’s no word difference really, just meaning.
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Fine-tooth comb by suntexi Slips, innovations and reshapings 2 2007-03-09 07:12:15 by jorkel
Find Tooth by Billy William Contribute! 0 2006-09-21 03:58:56 by Billy William
To avoid redundancy, one can do two or three things;
1. Click on “Search” on the red menu option above. Enter a key word, e.g., “tooth” or “combs” and see what comes up.
2. Search through the Eggcorn Database’s alphabetical listing;
3. Run a Google search with the phrase and the word “Eggcorn”. E.g., Google Eggcorn “fine tooth comb”
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