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Chris -- 2018-04-11
just saw this one for the first time today. it’s somewhat logical, simply misconstruing “in” as a prefix rather than as a separate preposition. if one assumes that, standard assimilation would change the /n/ to /m/ yielding the eggcorn. (in fact that assimilation probably occurs quite frequently even among speakers who are conscious of the fact that “in” and “particular” are separate lexemes)
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