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Chris -- 2018-04-11
From a post on YouTube referring to the band Garbage and Shirley Manson: “One of my favorite songs! Shirley is beautiful and her voice is memorising!”
Maybe that means “I can’t get her voice out of my mind.”
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This very nice eggcorn, having barely been mentioned years and years ago, deserves to be resurrected for more love on the occasion of my encountering it in the wild:
Gotta live these memorizing visuals. I could watch for hours
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I think that many times this one could be incorrect auto-correct, if the s is accidentally left out of mesmerizing.
“I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
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yanogator wrote:
I think that many times this one could be incorrect auto-correct, if the s is accidentally left out of mesmerizing.
I agree, Bruce, but due to the relative rarity of “mesmerizing” and the convincing meaning connection (a mesmerizing sight or experience being likely enshrined in the memory), I assume it’s probably an eggcorn in some cases.
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