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Chris -- 2025-05-10
191,000 hits for ‘door jam’
Including some from a home improvement sites/specialists such as this one (link) that uses it as the page heading and url
and others from non-specialists such as this one (link)
as one word ‘doorjam’ gets 13,600 hits but many don’t refer to the fixture.
tho one page dedicated to patents mentions “a simple doorjam mechanism.” (link)
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Welcome to the Eggcorn website, mcovarru, the eggcorn you mention was covered here previously:
In a jam—> In a jamb by fpberger Contribute! 0 2006-11-03 12:19:55 by fpberger
If you run a search on “jamb” from the above menu, you will find it.
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Ah…of course. I was looking for the whole phrase on here and didn’t find it.
My thanks for the redirect.
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