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Chris -- 2018-04-11
My roommate uses this one all the all the time and it drives me crazy :)
He says “Right off the back” instead of “Right off the bat”
It’s cool that this blog is here to catalog and call our attention to these changes. These blogs are kind of important because if the sayings become mangled it becomes hard to figure out what people are trying to indicate when they use them. Not that some language drift is bad, but someone needs to keep a chain of inference somewhere so that we can at least watch and understand how the phrases are mutating and what they originally meant.
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Welcome to the forum, Coherent!
This one has been introduced before: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … p?pid=2790
Feeling quite combobulated.
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Thanks for picking up my slack Jon. After 800-some posts, I’m pretty exhausted as the self-appointed welcome mat. Besides, you’ve reached the 50-post mark and now have the title “Eggcornista” among your credentials!
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