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Chris -- 2018-04-11
To “relate” a story means to tell it, and to “relay” a story means to pass it on (e.g., from another source). It would seem that the latter word is quite frequently used when the former is intended. So, perhaps this is more a malpropism than an eggcorn.
Examples:
nternet Invention: Chapter 7 – History/School (continued …..
It leads him to relay a story about coming home from school through the snow and coming into an empty house. Normally, his mother would have been there. ...
locus.cwrl.utexas.edu/jbrown/node/160 – 13k – Similar pages
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Schwitzer health news blog: Premature talk of a cure
Yes this is a news story but it would be sad to relay a story about a child, a human being without any emotion. Sherri Brady …
blog.lib.umn.edu/schwitz/healthnews/072567.html – 11k – Similar pages
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Publishers’ Bindings Online: Virginia Writers and the Old So…
One of them was the use of slave dialect to relay a story. Another was inclusion of blacks in a bi-racial plantation “family,†portraying the servant as …
bindings.lib.ua.edu/gallery/nelson_page.html – 61k – Similar pages
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