[Ads-l] "bared witness"

[Ben Zimmer]

"Bare witness" is indeed in the Eggcorn Database, along with various other
"bear"/"bare" substitutions.

https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/115/bare/


On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:59 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?
> >
> >

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