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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A niece writes:
I was going to go get some decorations for our Cinco de Mayo party at work, and my boss reminded me that we had a few boxes of stuff in storage. He said, “I think there are some ‘breros in there?”
It would be a nice eggcorn if it were standard. More probably it was a nonce error, a haplology from “some sombrerosâ€. (He probably pronounces it, as many do, ‘some-brero’.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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