eggcorn?

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've heard this so often it no longer registers.  Google provides about 200 exx.

JL

sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM> wrote:
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On NPR this evening, reporting on a guilty verdict just returned, several
references to "pre-emptory challenges" exercised in the jury selection.
A. Murie

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