Ancient eggcorn?

[Michael Quinion]

My son gave me a big collection of old SF magazines for Christmas. On the
back cover of issue No 5 of Nebula Science Fiction for Autumn 1953 is an
advert: "A Full-proof Insurance Policy".


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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
E-mail: wordseditor at worldwidewords.org
Web: http://www.worldwidewords.org

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