Eggcorn?

[Wilson Gray]

"Isn't this nothing more than a continuation of the Great Vowel Shift,
re-emerging after about three centuries _in a beyance_?"

Eggcorn? Or simply a slip of the finger?

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                              -Sam'l Clemens

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