Eggcorn?

[Dennis Preston]

Clearly a mistake AND a typo; no evidence of this
whatsoever in Beyoncé's speech.

dInIs

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>"Isn't this nothing more than a continuation of the Great Vowel Shift,
>re-emerging after about three centuries _in a beyance_?"
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>Eggcorn? Or simply a slip of the finger?
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>-Wilson
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