Eggcorn-like something or other

Tue Mar 21 19:29:34 UTC 2006

On Jan 13, 2006 [i'm doing a bit of catch-up here], at 8:00 PM, Larry
Horn wrote:

> At 1:09 AM -0500 1/12/06, Rex W. Stocklin wrote:
>> Okay this crowd is WAY too fast for me, even if Colbert ain't, but
>> just today the neato lady who came over and installed my CPAP machine
>> (sigh...) uttered this:
>>
>> They had determined from the underlining cause that she needed
>> therapy.
>>
> When I mentioned my previously cited "undermind" (for "undermine") to
> a friend off-list, she mentioned that it reminded her of encountering
> "underlining", as in "underlining representation" in students'
> homework assignments.

one of the early entries in the eggcord database:

   http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/66/underlining/

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