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Chris -- 2025-05-10
From:
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/Transcri … 9a3e01f69b
“There are different sexual morays, not very, very widely different.”
Watch out for the teeth on that one! 634 ghits.
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Bill Drissel
Last edited by drissel (2007-06-07 23:49:54)
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I’ve never been sure that this is truly an eggcorn. In any case, it’s in the Database here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/140/morays/
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The timeframe was the early seventies and a period of wild and irresponsible experimentation with all the social eels from illicit drugs to spontaneous sex with strangers.
Memoir
Spontaneous sex with strangers—that’s a-moray.
Here’s another.
[Students] may become prey to the eels of society such as gangs, drugs, and jail.
Alternative journalist
Last edited by burred (2012-02-26 12:02:33)
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