"Let me play _an evil's advocate_." [NT]

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Sep 2, 2011, at 7:51 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> Or maybe these are all errors a spelllchecker couldn't find, and there
> was no copy editor.

you're assuming they were inadvertent errors -- pretty unlikely, given the _an_ of _an evil's_.  larry and i are assuming they originated as orthographic eggcorns (with _devil_ reinterpreted as _evil_).

arnold

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