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Chris -- 2025-05-10
from my student’s paper (about Bernhard Schlink’s THE READER): “Hanna was so parannoyed of being exposed as illiterate that she condemned herself to a longer jail sentence (by claiming to have written the report).”
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Welcome to the eggcorn webstie shmizla. This eggcorn was covered here previously:
parANNOYED (paranoid) by jorkel Contribute! 0 2006-10-31 21:20:29 by jorkel
You can access it by running a search on the word “paranoid.”
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ok—didn’t do the right search! thanks for responding.
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