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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“A good idea gone a muck.”
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2 … ents/89703
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Welcome to the Eggcorn website, Azimuth. This subject received a little bit of comment here in the forum before:
‘run amuck’ for ‘run amok’ by klakritz Contribute! 1 2006-05-20 19:03:09 by Ben Zimmer
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Thanks, jorkel. I should have realized that the database search doesn’t cover the forums.
I wondered if the example above was not simply an ear-spelling, but connoted “gone TO muck” to the writer, as in “a good idea gone bad.”
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