In a message dated 18/10/2006 05:29:58 GMT Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's a very large body of -cular words pulling the pronunciation in
that direction, against virtually none that end with a sound like
-cle-ar.
There aren't many words that rhyme with orange either, but
At 03:23 AM 10/18/06 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 18/10/2006 05:29:58 GMT Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's a very large body of -cular words pulling the pronunciation in
that direction, against virtually none that end with a sound like
-cle-ar.
There
Unless we're talking about approaching the lowest voices in the choir
and doing some laying on of hands, as it were.
Dean
On Oct 17, 2006, at 9:19 PM, Mark D Lew wrote:
On Oct 17, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Bruce K H Kau wrote:
My favorite eggcorn, which I've never heard anywhere else, was
from
I'm off to work, so I don't have time to really search this one. I
recall something in a Safire book on this, but my memory gets worse with
age. Touch all the bases used to mean something like dot your i's and
cross your t's, and that's how I originally heard the expression. Over
the years, it
Bruce K H Kau wrote:
I'm off to work, so I don't have time to really search this one. I
recall something in a Safire book on this, but my memory gets worse with
age. Touch all the bases used to mean something like dot your i's and
cross your t's, and that's how I originally heard the
On 18 Oct 2006 at 7:15, Bruce K H Kau wrote:
I'm off to work, so I don't have time to really search this one. I
recall something in a Safire book on this, but my memory gets worse
with age. Touch all the bases used to mean something like dot your
i's and cross your t's, and that's how I
On Oct 18, 2006, at 7:03 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
[answering Lawrence Yates]
There aren't many words that rhyme with orange either, but that
doesn't
excuse anyone for pronouncing it incorrectly. :-)
So which way to you pronounce it? Ah-rinj, Orr-inj, Aw-rinj? Or
something
else? :)
Several of my eggcorn sitings (I almost typed citings!)
are listed in the database after having been reported to Arnold or
Chris.
um, perhaps, sightings?
I submitted voiceterous a while ago.
RY
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My favorite eggcorn, which I've never heard anywhere else, was from a
person who used to be in our marketing department. To say we needed to
stay in communication regarding an issue, she said we need to be on a
touch basis. Now, I've often heard people say we need to touch base
to mean we need
At 4:58 AM -0700 10/17/06, Richard Yates wrote:
Several of my eggcorn sitings (I almost typed citings!)
are listed in the database after having been reported to Arnold or
Chris.
um, perhaps, sightings?
Works for me. You made citings (references to) after siting
(locating--a little bit of
On Oct 16, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Oct 16, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
--Anyway, though, my collection is restricted to eggcorns
unintentionally perpetrated in postings to *this list.*
So I suppose you HAVE to include my ...that doesn't jive with
On Oct 16, 2006, at 2:37 PM, dc wrote:
Algorhythm for algorithm is very precisely an eggcorn from what I
read, since, with the (legitimate) word rhythm (instead of rithm),
it follows exactly the eggcorn pattern, with egg instead of a.
And, just as eggcorn can seem to have some meaning,
On 17 Oct 2006 at 4:58, Richard Yates wrote:
Several of my eggcorn sitings (I almost typed citings!)
are listed in the database after having been reported to Arnold or
Chris.
um, perhaps, sightings?
Good lord! In the process of fixing citings I fixed it wrong!
This follows what one
At 04:42 PM 10/17/2006, David W. Fenton wrote:
This follows what one online community I participate in calls
Coren's Law, named after the person who first observed that in
correcting someone else's mistake, you inevitably make on of your
own.
On of your own? Was that intentional? g
Aaron.
On 17 Oct 2006 at 16:52, Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 04:42 PM 10/17/2006, David W. Fenton wrote:
This follows what one online community I participate in calls
Coren's Law, named after the person who first observed that in
correcting someone else's mistake, you inevitably make on of your
own.
On Oct 17, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Bruce K H Kau wrote:
My favorite eggcorn, which I've never heard anywhere else, was from a
person who used to be in our marketing department. To say we needed to
stay in communication regarding an issue, she said we need to be on a
touch basis. Now, I've often
On Oct 17, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Oh OK. My problem w. it tho is that the algo- part of it has no
meaning, unless this is about seaweed--which it demonstrably isn't. To
me, algorhythm is a mere misspelling, just as [nukjulr] is a mere
mispronunciation, not a mishmash of nuke
On Oct 15, 2006, at 9:50 AM, dc wrote:
For Andrew's collection.
algorhythm
algorism.
But these are not eggcorns. An eggcorn requires the substitution for
one legitimate word for another, with the substitution actually making
some kind of sense. For example, I've encountered
On Oct 16, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
--Anyway, though, my collection is restricted to eggcorns
unintentionally perpetrated in postings to *this list.*
So I suppose you HAVE to include my ...that doesn't jive with
current jazz performance practice instead of jibe?
How about
Anyway, the joyces were removed and the building collapsed miserably.
Poor girl.
Jerry
On 16-Oct-06, at 1:26 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Oct 15, 2006, at 9:50 AM, dc wrote:
For Andrew's collection.
algorhythm
algorism.
But these are not eggcorns. An eggcorn requires the
At 10/16/2006 02:20 PM, Gerald Berg wrote:
How about
Anyway, the joyces were removed and the building collapsed miserably.
Poor girl.
I hope she got out before the crash ;-)
Phil Daley AutoDesk
http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley
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dc wrote:
Andrew Stiller écrit:
But these are not eggcorns. An eggcorn requires the substitution for
one legitimate word for another, with the substitution actually making
some kind of sense. For example, I've encountered
rottweiler--Rockwell, which I find hilarious, and just today a
dhbailey wrote:
dc wrote:
Andrew Stiller écrit:
But these are not eggcorns. An eggcorn requires the substitution for
one legitimate word for another, with the substitution actually
making some kind of sense. For example, I've encountered
rottweiler--Rockwell, which I find hilarious, and
At 10/16/2006 02:37 PM, dc wrote:
I disagree. Algorhythm for algorithm is very precisely an eggcorn from
what I read, since, with the (legitimate) word rhythm (instead of rithm),
it follows exactly the eggcorn pattern, with egg instead of a. And,
just as eggcorn can seem to have some meaning,
dc wrote:
dhbailey écrit:
That French example is a spoonerism, not an eggcorn.
I'm not so sure. Ta mère for mater is one. But tabasse for
stabat doesn't work. Besides which, all the definitions I saw say a
spoonerism is for humorous effect. This one was committed, as all
genuine eggcorns,
Well, my dictionary, for one place.
JR
On 10/16/06 2:55 PM, Phil Daley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought the 2 words were:
algorhythm
algorism.
Where did algorithm come from?
Phil Daley AutoDesk
http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley
Here's an eggcorn that had me confused for too many years. (I refuse
to divulge how recently I learned otherwise.)
The point is mute, or a mute court, instead of, of course, moot.
It kinda makes sense which is probably why I kept it for so long.
-Randolph Peters
P.S. I also like the
On Oct 16, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Randolph Peters wrote:
Here's an eggcorn that had me confused for too many years. (I
refuse to divulge how recently I learned otherwise.)
The point is mute, or a mute court, instead of, of course, moot.
It kinda makes sense which is probably why I kept it for
At 05:33 PM 10/16/2006, Christopher Smith wrote:
I kind of liked Chandler's (dim character on Friends, a TV show)
explanation of it's all moo now. You know, like who cares what a
cow's opinion of it is. It's just moo.
Instinct tells me you must be thinking of Joey...and
On 16 Oct 2006 at 21:07, dc wrote:
dhbailey écrit:
That French example is a spoonerism, not an eggcorn.
I'm not so sure. Ta mère for mater is one. But tabasse for
stabat doesn't work. Besides which, all the definitions I saw say a
spoonerism is for humorous effect. This one was committed,
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