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#1 2007-06-07 23:42:52

drissel
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Registered: 2006-08-10
Posts: 21

Morays for mores

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

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#2 2007-06-08 15:46:09

patschwieterman
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From: California
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 1680

Re: Morays for mores

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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#3 2012-02-22 13:29:25

burred
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From: Montreal
Registered: 2008-03-17
Posts: 1112

Re: Morays for mores

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

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