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by bobbytheblkbear 6 days ago
"Nick pick ahead" I have to ~nitpick~ your mis-phrasing here. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitpicking
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Eddy_Viscosity2 6 days ago
You know what, I knew it was wrong when I was typing it but I just couldn't remember what the right way was so I just left it. So thank you for this.
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tstrimple 6 days ago
Wait. So is this or is this not an eggcorn?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

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Eddy_Viscosity2 5 days ago
It was indeed an eggcorn, and I knew it was but it had so completely replaced the correct phrase in my mind that I just looked at it like 'that's not right, but I don't know what exactly is wrong about it'
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