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Chris -- 2025-05-10
The subject says it all.
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This is already in the Database, though it needs to be said that that particular article is too minimal to be of much use. Here’s the page: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/337/old-timers/
The comments are actually more interesting than the article itself.
I’ve always been suspicious of this one. Like a number of the people who added comments to that article, I’ve heard this used as an intentional pun, but never eggcornishly. Still, quite a number of people maintain very fervently that it exists in the wild as a genuine eggcorn.
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