http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Eggcorn Forum en http://backend.userland.com/rss http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15875#15875 15875@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: Eggcorns on Facebook Message: Hi all, I am still here reading contributions on occasion when I am not chasing after a lightning fast, nearly 3 year old boy. I tried to revive the FB group but did not know how to migrate 200 or so members to the “new” group format. Really FB should have been able to do that for us in as much as they seem to know every other detail of my life ;-) We are still there with only three members now! Pitiful. Cheers! Laura BTW, we have a couple of suggested eggcorns; one I surprisingly have not seen here: ration of bacon << rash of bacon Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:37:40 -0500 http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15874#15874 15874@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: cutterage for curettage Message: Ditto delightful. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:21:09 -0500 http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15873#15873 15873@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: Cupboard Box Message: End of the year lister. There are many more hits out there, too. Here’s another perspective not far removed. little accident So after I finished my homework, I went to go make myself some lunch. I opened up the kitchen covert and went to get a plate on the top shelf. Gamer in the most perfect comma. Sprawled out like a ragdoll in my chair. Nothing at all going on, then all of a sudden I practically fly out of my chair and cling to the ceiling as a loud bang of thunder thumbs above {...} I just now remember having like the creepiest dream. It was dark and I was trying to shut the door to the kitchen covert and it was not locking into place so I was doing it repeatedly. woah Second person account Blog At our house we have kitchen “covereds” and bathroom “covereds”, and upstairs there is even a toy “covered”. A few years ago Hannah had trouble saying “kuh-board” and it became “covered”. When you think about it, the old-fashioned cup-board was not enclosed, so “covereds” is a more accurate description of where we store things. See also Covered (cupboard) love Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:48:47 -0500 http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15872#15872 15872@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: cutterage for curettage Message: Delightful. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:41:44 -0500 http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15871#15871 15871@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: “sioux chef” for “sous chef” Message: I thought this one sounded fermilier. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:40:42 -0500 http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15870#15870 15870@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: “sioux chef” for “sous chef” Message: The examples of “Sioux chef” I’m seeing on the web look to me like puns, funny stopping points between “Sioux chief” -> “sous chef.” You can buy T-shirts with the “Sioux chef” pun on them. With a common pun you would expect a few people to miss the joke and adopt the spelling. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:42:59 -0500 http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15869#15869 15869@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: “sioux chef” for “sous chef” Message: I just encountered this in a Washington Post article on funny typos: “One of her favorites was in a help-wanted ad. A restaurant was looking for a ‘Sioux Chef’”. Googling yields quite a few of them. Some are jokes, but quite a few are people really mistaking the one for the other. But, in scanning a few pages of Google hits, I didn’t see any examples that seemed to indicate the kind of meaning-confusion that would make this error an actual eggcorn. They just seemed to be misspellings (or more accurately, substitution of one homonym for another). In some cases, the “sioux” substitution was in the context of someone asking someone else what the term “sioux chef” means. So I wouldn’t call it an eggcorn based on what I’ve seen of it so far. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:10:38 -0500 http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15868#15868 15868@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: Cupboard Box Message: Unless I’m mistaken this one has slipped through One lot was a cupboard box that contained much of Glover’s collection of negatives from photographs he had taken since serving in the trenches My childhood companion, Peter, a much-loved panda now in terminal decline, lived out the end of his days carefully wrapped up in a cupboard box Getting assistance stopped us from having to live in a cupboard box Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:10:26 -0500 http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15867#15867 15867@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: cutterage for curettage Message: “Cutterage” with the idea of cutting, rather than curettage from curette, a surgical instrument for scraping. Bing gets 8,550 results for “cutterage.” Examples: “Dermatologists have said that they are benign and that the only thing one can do is to freeze them off or use cutterage (cutting them off) but this includes a painful healing process.” “Cutterage, which uses an electric needle to “cut away” the wart, is often used when there are several warts in a localized area.” Also see the usage “dialation and cutterage” for “dilation and curettage. Perhaps “dialation” instead of dilation with the idea of a dial being round. “another method used in the U.S. is dialation and cutterage method, also used in the first three months of the child’s development. this methos involves a curette (hook-shaped knife) scraping out the womb, and then cutting the baby’s body into small pieces…” Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:14:11 -0500 http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15866#15866 15866@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: impudent / impotent Message: The roots of impudent are in shame, and impotent in power. It seems like in the direction of using impotent instead of impudent may be because of thinking of children as powerless, rather than shamelessly misbehaving: “Mr Z is an impotent kid so people should not read much in what he says.” “Impotent little boy is off his meds.” (Perhaps he forgot to take his Viagra.) (political blog) “More shameless impotence by the Democratic Judiciary Committee stooges.” “It’s easier too be polite than impotent and rude.” I don’t know if I have a good eggcorn rationalization for use of impudence instead of impotence: (political message board) “Hillary remains the most unattractive female in the world. She could singlhandedly reduce the world population by causing male impudence.” (humor site) “Study: Vegetables May Cause Impudence” “My husband is an acholohlic can it make him impudent?” Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:33:52 -0500 http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15865#15865 15865@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: “Ron day view” for rendezvous Message: Maybe not rotten, but it is ungainly, gnarly even. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:37:39 -0500 http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15864#15864 15864@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: “melting pop” for “melting pot” Message: A lot of these are genuine hits, making it a pretty funny reshaping. Some are, as you say, Will, interference from pop music. Some others are WTFT, primed by nearby hip-hop and crowd. This one reminded me of something I saw recently, going in the same direction. same woman also said “if i ever catch one of youse smokin that pop, id shoot ye… sure id shoot meself”! Irish board fightsy grandma BTW, the Google summary “About 21700 hits” you see at the top of search pages is even more inflated than initial public offering share prices for Facebook. I count somewhat less than 100 nonredundant hits. The Bing search engine is always soberer; it counts 93 hits (again, you must go to the end of the line to see a sensible value). I may switch to Bing as the default if Google starts getting too warm and cuddly and invasive as it seems to be threatening to do. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:33:26 -0500 http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15863#15863 15863@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: “melting pop” for “melting pot” Message: Could pop = popcicle be an attractor? Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:24:05 -0500 http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15862#15862 15862@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: “melting pop” for “melting pot” Message: I am seeing “melting pop” for “melting pot”. It’s possible that this is just a misspelling, or semantic interference from the ‘pop’ of pop music, but I’m seeing about 20k Google hits for “melting pop of” For example: Where in the bible can you find the melting pop of all humanity … A melting pop of urban lyrism and inventive arrangements … Cult Bits. Melting pop of music and writings. ... Chicago owes much of its culinary history to its vast melting pop of civilizations that came here from around the world…. With an ever increasing population, it is a city widely acclaimed as a cultural centre and a true ‘melting pop of nations’. It’s a big melting pop of different styles, fusing together dancehall, hip-hop, dubstep, and electronica for an underground club beat. Like some kind of melting pop of sixties and seventies soul,... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:09:26 -0500 http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15861#15861 15861@http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum Topic: “Ron day view” for rendezvous Message: I think I smell a rotten eggcorn here, one that has its origin in a play on words. Some of the examples you cite may be using “ron day view” with the full knowledge that it is a pun. Always hard to tell without the written equivalent of a wink, though the ones with the dashes (“ron-day-view”) and the capitalizations (“Ron Day View”) look suspect. Others may have picked up the odd spelling from seeing the pun and not catching the joke. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:31:31 -0500