eggcorn illicit

[Nancy Friedman]

Illicit for elicit is in the Eggcorn Forum database:

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3531

"Hearing Postponed For Teacher Illiciting Sex With Teen Over MySpace" (2009)


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-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Daniel [mailto:dad at POKERWIZ.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 11:17 AM
Subject: eggcorn illicit

Got kind of a cool eggcorn. Unfortunately it's from today's Daily Show
publicity email, which is kind of surprising as one likes to think of them
as the smart ones. Maybe, being really extra smart, they are coining a new
usage. The quote is: "On her Vagesty's Secret Service: The story of Secret
Service agents illiciting prostitutes should be dominating news networks,
but it can't because of Hilary Rosen's stupid remark." No, I don't mean
vagesty, I mean illicit. Interesting new usage would be: "verb, to solicit
something illicit," yes?
DAD

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