Stephen Foskett on Nostr: I just heard a new (to me) #eggcorn on the PBS Newshour: The guest said (and host ...
I just heard a new (to me) #eggcorn on the PBS Newshour: The guest said (and host repeated) that re-shoring jobs was a “pretense” for the tariffs. This is a particularly tricky near-synonym for “pretext” don’t you think?
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