"even still" ?

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Merely a blend? Merely?  I'm wounded!.... Anyway, yes, it is a blend: "even so" + "still."

Gerald Cohen
Author of _Syntactic Blends in English Parole_,  (Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 1987, 178 pp.)

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> From:         American Dialect Society on behalf of sagehen
> Sent:         Friday, March 10, 2006 6:39 PM
> Subject:           "even still" ?
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> >From Michael Connelly,/The Lincoln Lawyer/:
> "There were predators among the female ranks that easily  rivaled those among the males.  But, even still, the women I saw in jail seemed so
> different....."
>
> This looks a bit off-key to me, but I don't know if it rises to the level of eggcorn;  perhaps merely a blend.
> AM
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