follow suite >> follow suit

[Mark Mandel]

Google reports ~ 56400 hits for "follow suite", so James has indeed
uncovered an eggcorn, just not quite the one he thought he had.

m a m

On 10/14/07, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> this looks like a reverse eggcorn, in which original and reshaped
> variant change places (at least in the mind of certain users).

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