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#125 Re: Eggcorns
December 13, 2018, 03:59:25 pm
Vicer versa

Ying yang


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#127 Re: Eggcorns
December 13, 2018, 05:01:35 pm
Not an eggcorn, but I'm finding this thread intensely triggering.  :chair:

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#128 Re: Eggcorns
December 13, 2018, 06:00:44 pm
aren't a lot of these just spelling mistakes  :-\

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#129 Re: Eggcorns
December 13, 2018, 06:37:39 pm
Interesting point- how far from the original does it have to be? I did read a report about an 'unkept' garden today - not unkempt...

Proper eggcorns - aren't they just malapropisms, reinvented?


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#130 Re: Eggcorns
December 13, 2018, 07:17:58 pm
Duck Tape

You mean this stuff?


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Duck-Tape-Pattern-Colours-Vintage/dp/B01MTF1024/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1544717038&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=duck+tape&psc=1

As I understand it the name of the brand is a response to the mispronunciation. It’s hard to get to the bottom of it and would seem to be something of a hot topic in America- the Wikipedia page for duct tape is confusing and looks to have been compiled by at least two people with differing beliefs on the etymology of the term.

Obviously it’s gaffer tape over here anyway...

I agree that there are loads of things that are just misspellings/ mispronunciations on this thread that aren’t eggcorns in the proper sense. I’ve certainly posted some.  :sorry:

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#131 Re: Eggcorns
December 13, 2018, 07:24:02 pm

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#132 Re: Eggcorns
December 13, 2018, 07:24:33 pm
It was originally intended for repairing galvanised steel spiral air ducts, in it’s silvered form. They’re prone to rusting and blowing all over.
There was a stickier, tougher, black, version introduced in WW2 for damage control applications and popular with both Ship and Air crews. Known as “Harry Black Maskers”, do not ask why, it just is.
Still in use today.

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#133 Re: Eggcorns
December 13, 2018, 07:42:10 pm
Gaffer tape most certainly isn't duct tape!
http://www.differencebetween.net/object/difference-between-gaffer-tape-and-duct-tape/

 :lol: I assumed they were the same and gaffer tape was the British term. Thanks for setting me straight.

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#134 Re: Eggcorns
December 13, 2018, 08:53:47 pm
More a malapropism than a genuine eggcorn, but saw this on a twitter feed:

"Not hard to get the info you type letters into GOOGLE and wallah!!!"

that is unless he was answering a query on "what's the Hindi word for a flunky"!?

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#135 Re: Eggcorns
December 13, 2018, 09:31:26 pm
 :lol:

You type your question into Google and the Google wallah on the other end looks in an encyclopedia for you.

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#136 Re: Eggcorns
December 17, 2018, 02:03:14 pm
Glad tidings we bring to you and your king!

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#137 Re: Eggcorns
December 17, 2018, 09:32:53 pm
That reminds me, I need to decorate the tree with ballballs

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#138 Re: Eggcorns
December 17, 2018, 09:39:54 pm
That reminds me, I need to decorate the tree with ballballs

Very “Hudson Hawk”...


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#139 Re: Eggcorns
December 17, 2018, 09:58:34 pm
I have a friend who appears to believe that the well known Welsh climbing brand is in fact called DNM. He says it every time.

I used to climb with a highly dyslexic mate who said "Piranha" and "Pretzel" instead of, well, you can work it out.

He also once wondered aloud why Five Ten made approach shoes called "Guide Teenies".  :lol:


I think there's a lot of people who still call Anasazis, Anastazis.

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#140 Re: Eggcorns
December 17, 2018, 10:35:48 pm
Strider Wasilewski commentating on the Pipe Masters just used the phrase "Julian Wilson has hung on by the hair of his teeth"  :please:

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#141 Re: Eggcorns
December 17, 2018, 10:56:43 pm
Strider Wasilewski commentating on the Pipe Masters just used the phrase "Julian Wilson has hung on by the hair of his teeth"  :please:

I don’t think weshould be laughing at Mr Wilson’s oral hygiene deficiencies.

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#142 Re: Eggcorns
December 18, 2018, 11:40:11 am
 "It's an eye saw on the street"

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#143 Re: Eggcorns
December 18, 2018, 04:13:41 pm
Just had an email from a lady hoping a funding bid would come off that was ended;

"Fingers cross"

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#144 Re: Eggcorns
January 09, 2019, 04:39:59 pm
Just came across the same one twice in the space of minutes (one was on here!). We may have had this one already, but...

Daring do

(apologies to the culprit here, not meaning to have a go!)

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#145 Re: Eggcorns
January 09, 2019, 05:03:00 pm
Class!!! -  :lol: ( ;) )

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#146 Re: Eggcorns
January 09, 2019, 06:55:24 pm
Just came across the same one twice in the space of minutes (one was on here!). We may have had this one already, but...

Daring do

(apologies to the culprit here, not meaning to have a go!)

Funny thing though, it’s not “actually” wrong.*

First recorded use was Chauser in “Troylus And Criseyde”, but he spelled it “Durring” and used “Don” for “do”.
And it means Daring.

(Guess who’s 13 yo daughter is a right geek and currently doing Chauser at school).

* For a given value of wrong.

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#147 Re: Eggcorns
January 09, 2019, 07:42:06 pm
Just heard a great one on a football radio phone in " We need to take the game to them, and go for the juggler"

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#148 Re: Eggcorns
January 10, 2019, 10:50:11 am
"Anyone fancy bake an egg?"

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#149 Re: Eggcorns
January 11, 2019, 10:11:21 am
I have just inadvertently said "singing from the same honk sheet" in a conference call, much to the glee of several of my colleagues.

Don't know if it's an eggcorn or a Freudian slip or if I should just hang my head in shame.

 

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