Eggcorn?

[Scot LaFaive]

Maybe R-less speech translated into writing :)

Scot

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "Long story shut ..."
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> Eleven cooked Google hits:
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> "Long story shut, Linux and Mac users have made their own ..."
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> "Long story shut i completed it after a year ..."
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> "... to cut a long story shut... "
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> "... cut a long story shut ..."
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> "... to cut a long story shut ..."
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> "... make a long story shut I ended up shutting the baby up in the car
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> "... cutting a long story shut ..."
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> -Wilson
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