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marcosscriven
276 days ago
Side note - “full-proof” is an eggcorn of “foolproof”.
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NoPicklez
276 days ago
And eggcorn means "a word or phrase that results from a mishearing or misinterpretation of another, an element of the original being substituted for one which sounds very similar (e.g. tow the line instead of toe the line )."
I'd never heard of it before
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I'd never heard of it before