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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 20:35:58 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Unix style
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Doug McIlroy scripsit:

> (COuld "reigning in" somehow have been implanted by this
> headline that I saw in The Economist a few days ago:
> "The reign in Maine is easy to explain"?)

It's a pretty common malapropism nowadays; almost 6M Google hits.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
It's the old, old story.  Droid meets droid.  Droid becomes chameleon.
Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back
again.  It's a classic tale.  --Kryten, Red Dwarf