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Chris -- 2018-04-11
On CNN: “FUJII: So a really grizzly scene out on Highway I-84. Witnesses and students and faculty who actually saw that say that it’s such a grizzly scene, it’ll be hard to erase it from their minds—Miles. ”
A game review: “Soldiers investigating the disappearance of the Swiss Guard Recon Squad discover a grizzly scene that none of them are ready for.”
A pseudo-news web site, American Chronicle: ”...he was not the only grizzly sight on Hillsboro Boulevard…”
The word should be “grisly” unless, of course, those sights and scenes were extremely large, long-clawed bears…
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Welcome to the Eggcorn website SweetViolet. There is some discussion of the proposed eggcorn here:
grizzly for grisly by julane Contribute! 2 2006-04-03 11:14:20 by julan
The crux of the post is that it’s probably a misspelling. For it to qualify as an eggcorn, the utterer would really have to intend for there to be a comparison to a grizzly bear.
My own opinion is that there are probably some occasions where the grisly (horror-inspiring) nature of a grizzly bear is being pointed out. I just haven’t seen an example with enough contextual clues to prove this beyond a doubt.
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