Eggcorn

[Michael Quinion]

A subscriber sent me this message, which he had seen in a store in
Plymouth, asking if this was an eggcorn:

  "DO NOT USE THE ESCALATOR IN THE ADVENT OF FIRE"

It certainly reads wrongly to me, but I suppose fire falls into the
category of "the arrival of a notable person or thing" ...


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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
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