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#1 2007-11-12 11:39:50

shmizla
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parannoyed for paranoid

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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#2 2007-11-12 15:17:39

jorkel
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Re: parannoyed for paranoid

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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#3 2007-11-12 16:34:34

shmizla
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Re: parannoyed for paranoid

ok—didn’t do the right search! thanks for responding.

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