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Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 01:27:42 pm
Eggcorn. Noun. In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect.

My favourites so far:

Don't take it for granite.

For all intensive purposes.

I was wondering around the crag when...

Well done, son shine.

I can't bare it any more.

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#1 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 02:37:32 pm
The BT salesperson yesterday: "You may not be legible."

The internet, all the time: "An absolutely top draw boulder problem."

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#2 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 04:06:58 pm
I actually once heard with my own ears a friend accuse somebody of "popcorn kettle black".

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#3 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 05:18:13 pm
Great to learn there's a name for this.  Couple that spring to mind:
climbing is my favourite past time
dinner's ready, could you lay out the cut-el-ree
it's just part of the course

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#4 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 05:19:36 pm
I actually once heard with my own ears a friend accuse somebody of "popcorn kettle black".
:clap2: that's going to take some beating

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#5 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 05:36:59 pm
My school friend, "I can't wait for the exams to be over, I need some rest bite" has stuck with me to this day.

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#6 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 06:28:04 pm
I actually once heard with my own ears a friend accuse somebody of "popcorn kettle black".
:clap2: that's going to take some beating

He'd already been in for a ribbing earlier in the evening when, about 2 minutes after a group conversation about oral as performed on the female sex, he looked up and asked, "who on earth is Colonel Lingus".

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#7 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 06:37:39 pm
Two I've heard or seen on forums more than a few times:
- tow the line
- escape goat / scrape goat


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#8 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 07:53:15 pm
Two I've heard or seen on forums more than a few times:
- tow the line
- escape goat / scrape goat

Authocorrect doesn’t help with these...
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#9 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 08:14:11 pm
Does it include deliberate ones?

Like the classic “Murky buckets”?

Or “Fairy snuff”?

Or do they have to be accidental?

Like my favourite log book entry about the foredeck being dangerous due to “Whore frost”?

Or this, and I swear I took this photo in Piraeus (meant to be Warves):



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#10 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 08:40:31 pm
Saved for prosperity

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#11 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 08:45:08 pm
Well balls!

Typo.

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#12 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 09:04:08 pm
My school friend, "I can't wait for the exams to be over, I need some rest bite" has stuck with me to this day.

Funny how these sorts of things stay with you... I still remember one from school age whilst round at a mate's house.  We must've asked his mum for a solution to some complex problem to which she declared 'I'm not Ironside you know!'

Also, being a bit slow on the uptake, I only realised after previous posting that eggcorn is presumably itself an eggcorn.

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#13 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 09:59:53 pm
 :lol:

It actually took me a while to get that one. What world are these people in?!

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#14 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 10:26:39 pm
Saved for prosperity

Note “Gargo” to the right, too.

This is what happens when you put “I speak seven languages” on your CV...

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#15 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 10:53:40 pm
Or this, and I swear I took this photo in Piraeus (meant to be Warves):



 :lol:

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#16 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 11:40:04 pm
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Note “Gargo” to the right, too.

This is what happens when you put “I speak seven languages” on your CV...

 :shrug:

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#17 Re: Eggcorns
November 17, 2018, 11:47:13 pm
Saved for prosperity

Note “Gargo” to the right, too.

This is what happens when you put “I speak seven languages” on your CV...

 :shrug:


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#18 Re: Eggcorns
November 18, 2018, 02:24:10 am
Saved for prosperity

Note “Gargo” to the right, too.

This is what happens when you put “I speak seven languages” on your CV...

 :shrug:

Right, that didn’t make sense, because I meant to quote my own post not yours Cheque.
I’d left it too long to edit my own and wanted to add the reference to the sketch.
Then, I thought you must have not got the sketch reference, and...

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#19 Re: Eggcorns
November 18, 2018, 06:46:19 am
"pacifically"

"that was a galliant effort"

And after a particley impressive bit of climbing:

"that was absolutely superfluous!"

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#20 Re: Eggcorns
November 18, 2018, 08:09:24 am
Popular local phrase, in the villages around the southern edge of Dartmoor, and a favourite of my Grandmother; was “San Fairy Ann”.

It meant, someone who was careless or glib, as in “he’s all bliddy San Fairy Ann, that boy”.

I think I was an adult before I found out it was a corruption of the French “Ça ne fait rien”.

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#21 Re: Eggcorns
November 18, 2018, 08:33:21 am

And after a particley impressive bit of climbing:


Bit of a quantum leap then?

On the French tip, Bluejohn mines = blue et jaune and for our fishing friends, John Dory may = jaune doré.

Are eggcorns what mighty yolks grow from? :-\

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#22 Re: Eggcorns
November 18, 2018, 08:39:21 am
Time for this, surely?


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#23 Re: Eggcorns
November 18, 2018, 08:42:09 am
Are eggcorns what mighty yolks grow from? :-\

Only lidl’s ones...

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#24 Re: Eggcorns
November 18, 2018, 08:50:20 am
Popular local phrase, in the villages around the southern edge of Dartmoor, and a favourite of my Grandmother; was “San Fairy Ann”.

It meant, someone who was careless or glib, as in “he’s all bliddy San Fairy Ann, that boy”.

I think I was an adult before I found out it was a corruption of the French “Ça ne fait rien”.

That’s lovely!!

 

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