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"illicit your help"

I got a snail mail from charity using this phrase, is it just someone mistaking illicit and solicit?
  

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" Do we have an eggcorn here? Bob Lieblich Illiciting your opinions

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[nq:1]I got a snail mail from charity using this phrase, is it just someone mistaking illicit and solicit?[/nq]
Mistake, yes, but the intended word was probably "elicit."

Do we have an eggcorn here?

Bob Lieblich
Illiciting your opinions
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[nq:1]I got a snail mail from charity using this phrase, is it just someone mistaking illicit and solicit?[/nq]
I think they meant elicit.

Stephen
Lennox Head, Australia
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