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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Shouldn’t that be a vicious circle?
I came across this today in a PowerPoint presentation by a non-native English speaker. I can understand the logic. He was speaking of getting bogged down or stuck in the same repetitive series of actions that interminably lead one to the other. A little like trying to break out of thick, viscous quicksand.
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Welcome to the Eggcorn website RochelleTr.
The eggcorn you mention was addressed here in the Forum…
“viscous circle” for “vicious circle” by patschwieterman Contribute! 1 2005-11-22 09:10:50 by Ben Zimmer
You can relocate it by clicking on “Search” in the red menu bar above and entering “viscous” in the entry box.
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