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       Re: Force Family Awkwardness
       By: Hmmm Date: January 12, 2022, 8:50 am
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       [quote author=Aleko link=topic=2222.msg72990#msg72990
       date=1641971608]
       [quote]BIL's hair-brained schemes[/quote]
       Just curious: was that Autocorrect getting creative there, or is
       ‘hair-brained’ a thing now in Leftpondia? It’s new to me.
       [/quote]
       It's actually been a thing since the 1500's... starting in
       Rightpondia. It did start with the alternate spelling of hare
       but it is an accepted spelling.
  HTML https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hai1.htm
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       Re: Force Family Awkwardness
       By: Aleko Date: January 12, 2022, 11:20 am
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       [quote]It's actually been a thing since the 1500's... starting
       in Rightpondia. It did start with the alternate spelling of hare
       but it is an accepted spelling.
  HTML https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hai1.htm[/quote]
       That may be so in Leftpondia (although I see that World Wide
       Words advises against it); but over here, ever since the
       spelling of the animal's name was finally settled as hare rather
       than hair(e) , which in England was in the early 17th century
       and in Scotland more than a century later, it has been
       considered unequivocally as a mistake; any schoolteacher or
       proofreader would put a strike through it without hesitation. It
       may be increasing as an eggcorn
       (
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn),
       as so few people in the
       UK these days are familiar with hares and their mad March
       behaviour.
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       Re: Force Family Awkwardness
       By: Star Wars Fan Date: August 21, 2023, 8:38 pm
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       [quote author=Aleko link=topic=2222.msg72990#msg72990
       date=1641971608]
       [quote]BIL's hair-brained schemes[/quote]
       Just curious: was that Autocorrect getting creative there, or is
       ‘hair-brained’ a thing now in Leftpondia? It’s new to me.
       [/quote]
       It should be hare-brained, not hair-brained.
       Ed.
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