Not Quite an Eggcorn, but...

[Doug Harris]

Arnold wrote:
ah, this is a mishearing.  there's a fair literature on such things.
in this case, the hearer's expectations probably played a role in the
misperception.  and i'd guess that the ae originally produced was
raised and tensed, in the direction of e; if the hearer wasn't a
"short-a"-raiser himself, that would have encouraged the misperception.
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Nor, we may presume, was he a hell-raiser -- that being one of the reasons
he feared his friend was admitting to an addiction to heroin.
;)
(the other) doug

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