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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Untrammeled means not limited or restricted. One context where the term is frequently invoked is the preservation of public lands or forest…
Wilderness Act – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia… where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.†... million acres (37,000 km²) of national forest …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness_Act · Cached page
Untrampled would be an eggcorn of this usage:
LoriHallSteele.com – FAR AND AWAYIn the Hiawatha and Ottawa national forests alone, there are close to 2 million acres of untrampled lands. Down U.P. two-tracks everywhere are secret cabins, places where people …
www.lorihallsteele.com/story.php?storyid=5 · Cached page
Last edited by jorkel (2009-05-14 09:46:35)
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By the way, the reverse eggcorn—replacing trampled with trammeled—was previously submitted in the Forum a while back; I just located it after conducting a word search.
I discovered the current eggcorn from a discussion on NPR this morning about public land legislation. One of the guests mentioned the confusion, so perhaps it is an eggcorn he had observed firsthand.
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