It would qualify as an eggcorn if the meaning made sense, but I suspect this is the sort of slip I make all too easily when I'm typing and thinking fast.

Herb

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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of DD Farms
Sent: 2009-02-08 20:43
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Subject: conscience?

At 05:28 PM 2/8/2009, Robert Yates wrote:. . .
>I only want to address a challenge you make because it shows a 
>conscience dismissal of anything that disagrees with your own program. . . .

DD I have noted this term, "Conscience," being used by several. I am 
confused. Is it a matter of conscience as ethically or religiously 
dictated?  Some how I feel the thought is, "Conscious." Or is it, 
"conscientious?" Still I am not familiar with the latest professional cant.

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