[Ads-l] Suspect eggcorn for "extubated"

victor steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Aug 2 12:44:13 UTC 2024


>From an ESPN story this morning:

The Freemans said Maximus has shown significant improvement in the past 48
hours and was "excavated from his breathing tube and taken off of the
ventilator" on Wednesday.

Google AI makes searching difficult, as it automatically redirects to
"extubation".

VS-)

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