I found a new eggcorn!
Well, new to me.
I was reading "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan. It's a young-adult fantasy novel, part of a series.
Toward the end of the book, his main character says, in response to his friend's offer to remove an "empathy link" between them:
"I'd just assume keep it . . . "
Instead of: "I'd just as soon keep it . . . "
Others have spotted this "in the wild," but it's a first for me.
I think part of the confusion stems from people's not using the other half of the idiom:
"I'd just as soon keep it as not . . . "
Other citations:
Brian's Common Errors in English: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/
Which is also a book: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/book.html
And, it turns out it *is* in the Eggcorn Database. I did a search for it on that site and didn't find it, or a second thread of comments, but Google turned it up.
