Original sentence: The word gauntlet, unrelated to the French-derived word gauntlet meaning a protective glove, was probably transferred from the Swedish gatlopp ("street run") to British troops in the Thirty Years' War.Variant terms include "gantlet" and the poetic "gantelope"
Edited sentence: The inclusion of the word 'gauntlet' in the phrase is a mis-substitution of the French-derived word gauntlet, meaning a protective glove, for the Swedish gatlopp ("street run") by British troops in the Thirty Years' War.The original idiom, before this mistaking of the words, was "running the gantlet", although a further variant used the poetic "gantelope"