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[-] prole 2 points 4 days ago

Duct tape is specifically used to tape ducts together, so I'm not sure it was necessarily a malapropism

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Malapropism is probably too strong a term, I admit, but the actual origin is likely a play off duck tape:

"Duck tape" is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary as having been in use since 1899 and "duct tape" (described as "perhaps an alteration of earlier duck tape") since 1965.

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