Eggcorn: groan pull
Alison Murie
sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Mon Nov 27 03:39:40 UTC 2006
Mark Peters writes:
>I noticed a groin/groan confusion in a student paper, and it looks like
others have made the same mistake:
>~~~~~~~~~~~
Considering the painfulness of the condition, this is a rather prettily apt
eggcorn.
AM
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