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#1 2007-01-05 18:08:14

FifiSteinweg
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Registered: 2007-01-04
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"Chaise Lounge" for "Chaise Longue"

Go Fuigre!
(I suspect this is a New Jersey thing)

Last edited by FifiSteinweg (2007-01-05 18:18:03)

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#2 2007-01-08 00:28:08

patschwieterman
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Re: "Chaise Lounge" for "Chaise Longue"

A classic example of the “cross-language eggcorn”—it’s in the Database here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/194/chaise-lounge/

The reshaping is so much more common in American speech than the original that it’s probably not really an “eggcorn” anymore, but, hey, we like it….

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