A torcherous eggcorn

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Wed Dec 12 16:27:59 UTC 2007


At 12/12/2007 11:13 AM, Mark Peters wrote:
>What is your purpose, where do you go after death? If I am right and
>you are wrong. Your afterlife is certain death, your afterlife is
>going to be torcherous, your afterlife will be an eternity of
>wishing that you harkened to this comment, or you listened to a
>family member or friend that wanted to show you something greater.
>   http://exchristian.net/exchristian/2006/01/bible-is-true-ill-prove-it.html

The other examples may be eggcorns, but this may show wit -- I feel
the fires of hell.

Joel

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