Eggcorn: Blindsighted

[Chris Waigl]

On 3 Sep 2009, at 03:51, Doug Harris wrote:

> I encountered today, in the wild, an eggcorn that is not in the
> database yet shows 69k google hits:
>
> "Unfortunatly you are blindsighted becuase you never has inspections."
>
> Aside from the terrible spelling -- possibly caused by the writer's
> being slightly (and temporarily) sightily impaired due to an
> infection -- the word "blindsighted" appears to be a true eggcorn in
> that it convenes a logical meaning via an unintended spelling error.
> dh
>

[Sorry, I sent this to Doug directly in error at first.]

This one is on my high-priority list. It has appeared in the forums on
many occasions: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/search.php?search_id=738378671

Chris Waigl

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