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Re:Average home prices in New Zealand reaches 8.8 times aver... by mattclarkdotnet on Friday May 06, 2022 @05:58AM (#31283347)
“pinned in” - meaning “penned in”? I can see they’d sound the same in a New Zealand accent so just idly wondering
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Re:Average home prices in New Zealand reaches 8.8 times aver... by zimpenfish on Friday May 06, 2022 @07:35AM (#31283920)
"penned for pinned" is in the Eggcorn database[1] - doesn't look like "pinned for penned" is yet but probably worth a contribution (also see the pen <=> pin dictionary definition in the linked thread.)

[1] http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=7251

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