Eggcorn?

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:02 AM -0800 2/8/06, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>On Feb 7, 2006, at 9:32 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>>>From SlashDot:
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>>"For all intensive purposes, I could care less."
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>a very early entry in the eggcorn database:
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>http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/32/intensive-purposes/
>
And "ex-patriot" is nicely attested in the database as well.

LH

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