[Ads-l] "single handily" - eggcorn?

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Nancy Friedman wrote:
> In a spectacularly backfiring tweet from US House of Representatives
> candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) purporting to insult Rep.
> Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
>
> As a blonde woman, I would like to take a moment to thank Congresswoman
> @AOC <https://twitter.com/AOC>
> . She has single handily put an end to all “dumb blonde” jokes. Blondes
> everywhere appreciate your service and your sacrifice!
>
> https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1307679451086548996?s=20
>
> {AOC's response here:
> https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1308155423690764289?s=20}

There is a pertinent forum topic on the Eggcorn forum.
Messages mention "single handily", "even handily", "double-handily"
and "triple-handily".

Eggcorn Forum
Forum index » Contribute! » Single handily
https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6021

[Begin excerpt from Eggcorn website]
DavidTuggy
Eggcornista
From: Mexico
Registered: 2007-10-11

Also

If you apply the logic even handily, any football club in debt is
utilising money it doesn’t have.

So, if there are rules, how about having them written down somewhere
and applying them even-handily, with equal emphasis applied to their
correct application by those weilding the power, as to correct
adherance by the rest of us mere mortals.

[they] were double-handily polishing off the tray of soft-shelled crabs

Klaxons are known to bring a party atmosphere to their live
appearances and have triple-handily re-popularized the slacker look

Her mother also told me her daughter was entirely left handed, to the
point she’d alternate her knife and fork left handily when eating.

(That one is interesting, with “left handed” so close in the context.
The next is a rather different meaning.)

I am not going to make a big issue of that, I understand what he
meant, we all say things a little left-handily.

Some examples of right handily are probably this error, but I don’t
have time to sift through the legit examples to find them. Similarly
for other possibilities as well. Back handily, side handily, black
handily, … I wonder if anyone thinks of it as (single) handle-ly?

*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)
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