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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I guess not many people have ever seen a real pig sty…
“So it’s a major story when a single person who lives in a pig style of a house and has a dusty PS3 but when tens of thousands are reporting problems of breaking X360s it takes over a YEAR to do anything about it?”
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/sh … d=26053095
“Then the ownership changed and a new manager took over.
The place became slowly a pig style. I think that its doors will soon
close permanently.”
http://www.learning-org.com/03.02/0029.html
“My 17 year old, has been a challenge to say the least, but I am now begining to see that she might well turn into a cool young woman after all…. keeping her room like a pig style, among quite a few other things.”
http://www.mothering.com/discussions/sh … 595&page=2
“The place should be burned to the ground and get rid of the cockroaches and start over.
The place was a pig style and over priced.”
http://www.mytravelguide.com/hotels/pro … eland.html
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This one seems like a pretty valid eggcorn to me…. Nice find.
Feeling quite combobulated.
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Ditto. Good work!
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Awesome find.
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Continuing on the rural theme, there are also 98 Google hits for “pig stile.” I suppose one might have steps for the purpose of the pigs being able to cross a fence, but I thought the point of a stile was so that humans could cross, but not animals.
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