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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Following up on the idea of looking for eggcorns involving pat, ken, joe and so forth, I found this, from an 1860 edition of Punch :
He swore he would show each old fogy, Ho was not to be schooled how the coach should be tooled, In defiance of tugbear or bogey.
Unfortunately, upon examination, it looks like it is an OCR error: the (digitized) original looks more like “bugbearâ€.
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The same goes for the following, which came from 1826:
It would be worth while to give a list of popular and infantine tugbears, ancient and modern.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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