[Ads-l] "bared witness"

[Barretts Mail]

Not in the eggcorn database, but common on Google. “Bare witness” certainly seems more plausible if you don’t know.

Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
Formerly of Seattle, WA

> On 18 Mar 2020, at 18:14, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> https://books.google.com/books?id=uqn_rH3znpUC&pg=PA50
> 
> *>>>>>*
> 
> *Victims of the Game: The Manipulation*
> Tyrone Mobley
> AuthorHouse, May 5, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 516 pages
> 
> About the author (2004)
> Tyrone Mobley was born April 28,1960, in Brooklyn, New York. He dropped out
> of high school in 1979 and received his GED the same year; he submerged
> himself into the dark world of street gangsters, as he *bared witness* to
> the brutal world of drugs, guns, and the quest for street power.
> 
> <<<<<
> 
> Is this possibly a kind of eggcorn?
> 
> MAM

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