Epidemic!
(Note: IANAD) Now that Road Rage has been granted its own disease classification (although “Road Rage Syndrom” may well be a specific instance of IED[0]), I’m going to propose a classification of my own, rough-hewn from one of my more persistent pet peeves. Confused Homophone in Idiomatic Language Syndrome (CHILS) is my provisional name for the prevalent disease in which the afflicted substitutes an incorrect word into textual communication, muddling the meaning of the altered phrase.[1] When spoken, such errors would be undetectable.
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