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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Only brain surgeons should be making this assessment ;^) Nonetheless I find 12,000 google hits on the phrase.
-DeeT
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Another malaprop, yes. Also a candidate for a spell-checker reshaping—and some people might think that “photographic” wasn’t fancy enough.
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I rather like “photogenic” memory. All bad memories wiped out, only the pretty ones remain. I’m new to eggcorns, but I think it qualifies.