[Ads-l] "bared witness"

[Barretts Mail]

I apologize. I was looking only for “bared.”

I supposed “bared” isn’t an eggcorn itself, but comes from the bear/bare eggcorn, which is entangled like the lie/lie/lay and rise/rose sets. 

Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
Formerly of Seattle, WA

> On 18 Mar 2020, at 23:07, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> "Bare witness" is indeed in the Eggcorn Database, along with various other
> "bear"/"bare" substitutions.
> 
> https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/115/bare/ <https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/115/bare/>
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:59 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com <mailto:mail.barretts at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> 
>> Not in the eggcorn database, but common on Google. “Bare witness”
>> certainly seems more plausible if you don’t know.
>> 
>> Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
>> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>> 
>>> On 18 Mar 2020, at 18:14, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>> 
>>> https://books.google.com/books?id=uqn_rH3znpUC&pg=PA50
>>> 
>>> *>>>>>*
>>> 
>>> *Victims of the Game: The Manipulation*
>>> Tyrone Mobley
>>> AuthorHouse, May 5, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 516 pages
>>> 
>>> About the author (2004)
>>> Tyrone Mobley was born April 28,1960, in Brooklyn, New York. He dropped
>> out
>>> of high school in 1979 and received his GED the same year; he submerged
>>> himself into the dark world of street gangsters, as he *bared witness* to
>>> the brutal world of drugs, guns, and the quest for street power.
>>> 
>>> <<<<<
>>> 
>>> Is this possibly a kind of eggcorn?
>>> 


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