Eggcorn?

[Wilson Gray]

"_Pre tell_ why was Georgia the ONLY state that went even more
Republican in 2006?"

3140 raw - e.g., also includes the meaning "preliminary indicator or
indication," combining standard pre- with gambling technical term,
"tell," and usually spelled "pre-tell" - hits

-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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