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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This isn’t an eggcorn – the difference in sound between “respecting” and “suspecting” is just too great. But I like reshapings that reveal connections between two apparently unrelated ideas. A bit of self-suspicion probably really is a necessary component of a healthy self-respect.
Just a very small handful of these out there. Examples:
I’m convinced this kind of rigour would have stopped the unnecessary carnage of 9/11, as any self-suspecting bomber would have realised at that point that the game was up (!)
http://www99.epinions.com/content_276879871620
I did what any self-suspecting Yankee would do, when seeing a bunch of toothless “Rednecks†I stepped on the gas.
http://www.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/370097
And though stopping goals is the thing he will be largely remembered for, his brace of headers against Liverpool at Anfield which all but clinched the 1997 title burns brightly in any self-suspecting Red’s memory bank.
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pageg … on=&page=2
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