Explosive eggcorn

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Jul 17, 2009, at 3:40 AM, Bill Palmer wrote:

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> From CNN's homepage this morning.  I believe this qualifies.
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> Police found an unexploded bomb on the 18th floor of the J.W.
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> Hotel, but they were able to diffuse it.=20

in the ecdb, an early entry in fact:

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/33/diffuse/

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