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Questions arising from error (real or perceived): solecism, malapropism, mondegreens, eggcorns, disputed usages, so-called "corruption", folk etymologies, but also requests for interpretation when the text in question arguably contains an error, and questions which stem from a misunderstanding. Do not use when an error has not been made: for example, "which is correct" questions arise from uncertainty, not error.
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"Key thob" and "key fob"
Speakers of these dialects have extra trouble knowing when to write f and when to write th, so many of the errors that you can find may be from people for whom fob and thob are actually pronounced identically … Finally, the characteristic errors of the dialects in #3 prompt a hyper-correction from some people, causing them to "correct" f back to th in places where the f was actually correct. …
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