persay = per se

[Herb Stahlke]

One of my graduate Intro to Linguistics students just wrote (online):

...students shouldn't be persay "forced" to learn...

I got 92.9k raw ghits on it, although a fair number represent a
company by that name.  Even an online legal dictionary has it,
although in the definition they use the Latin term.  I'm using a slow,
lame motel computer right now and it won't let me check the Eggcorn
Database to see if "persay" or "per say" are listed there or in the
forum.

Herb

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