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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Bajillions of ghits.
A bunker is a place you hunker down in to protect yourself, so I think it’s pretty clear how the substitution came about.
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I suspect that the transformation of “hunker down” to “bunker down” is influenced by the colloquial phrase “bunk down,” meaning to go to bed.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Ken posted this back in 2005 with links to a Jan Freeman article—I think it also showed up on LL.
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