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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“I don’t know where she got her doctrine but I fear for her patients.”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800027/board/nest/87666509
Not an eggcorn I guess since doctrine and doctorate have the same root… and I guess you could stretch it to say they can be rough synonyms. But I doubt the person typing this was thinking of it that way.
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