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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The database already contains stock -> stalk, but not this particular sub-eggcorn. It’s semantically apt, since bare or lightly shod feet, being silent, are good for stalking. Examples:
Leona’s were the steady sound of stiletto heels hitting the off-white tile; Willow’s the soft thud of stalking feet.
www.angelfire.com/pa/shattereddreams/story2.html
It’s an inside party and I couldn’t have her going around in bare feet much less in her stalking feet…
www.thebabycorner.com/boards/showthread.php?t=310638
Every time you take your shoes off at the airport security, and walk in your stalking feet, remember the shoe-bomber they caught…
www.inforumblog.com/?m=200608&paged=3
You want to hear every psychotic whisper and the shuffle of treacherous, stalking feet.
www.xbox.com/en-US/games/gamegurus/ryan … orrors.htm
I stepped in some aging vomit in my stalking feet, with athletes foot and no change of socks. Yuck!
blogsbie.blogspot.com/
It was that rhythmic thump, setting a drumming tempo that pulled my stalking feet across the room.
www.geocities.com/astraea111/SundayGirl.html
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“Stalk still” also gets about 500 hits. Makes sense—a predator stalking prey will know not to move until the timing’s right.
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I notice that “stalk still” just made it into the Eggcorn Database. No mention of this post from back in January, but, well, at least it made it.
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About this one:
“You want to hear every psychotic whisper and the shuffle of treacherous, stalking feet. ”
www.xbox.com/en-US/games/gamegurus/ryan … orrors.htm
Couldn’t that be a deliberate pun? Sort of Jackson Browne-esque (“you can hear the sound of slamming doors and folding chairs”)? Probably not on an advertising site, but in song lyrics, or a poem, I’d think it was.
But I agree the others are eggcorns.
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