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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Article in NYTimes on August 17, 2007 about the Michael Vick dogfighting case quotes D. Berman using the phrase “un-chartered territory” [used in place of “un-charted territory”].
“According to Douglas A. Berman, a professor of law at Ohio State University who writes the blog Sentencing Law and Policy, the sentencing guidelines for all the individuals involved are “un-chartered†territory because dog fighting just became a federal felony in May.”
A professor of law no less! He should know better.
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This one’s in the Database here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/173/unchartered/
The Db entry is unusual because the article explicitly addresses the old eggcorn-or-malapropism debate.
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