Discussions about eggcorns and related topics
You are not logged in.
Registrations are temporarily closed as we're receiving a steady stream of registration spam.
Anyone who wishes to register, please email me at chris dot waigl at gmail dot com with the desired username and a valid email address, and I will register you manually.
Thanks for your understanding.
Chris -- 2011-03-08
About 300 ghits. Crustaceans didn’t first arise during the cretaceous period (144 to 65 mya), but it was a period of great expansion for them – maybe that’s an influence here. Our authors may be able to blame a half-remembered introductory course on geology or biology for the slip. Or maybe their spellcheckers are a more appropriate focus of censure. Examples:
He has studied the Nebraska Sand Hills for 10 years, which are similar to – albeit younger than – the dunes of Mongolia, which date back 70 million years to the crustaceous period.
http://www.unl.edu/scarlet/v6n25/v6n25features.html
So I decided to design some personalized labels for the guests. Forgetting that our computer is from the crustaceous period.
http://cynicsgirl.blogspot.com/2005_09_ … chive.html
“He is correct, her conversation will last longer then the
crustaceous period,” Hotaru said.
http://www.sailormoonlinks.com/175.txt
Formed in the Crustaceous Period (over 60 million years ago), this area is much wetter than the Fraser Plateau and Fraser Basin.
http://www.ccconserv.org/forests-waterways.html
Animal life (dinos): d/k; Human life: 1 A.C. (After Christ) period after crustaceous period
http://www.earth.northwestern.edu/peopl … /time.html
*****************************************************
Musicians often seem to be ahead of the curve in spotting potential eggcorns. The Australian rock band The Crustaceans issued a collection of their formative work as “The Early Crustaceous Period” in 2004.
Offline