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#1 2007-01-13 10:40:42

bradmadonald
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#2 2007-01-13 11:57:47

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1222

Re: cremate >> creamate

Hello Brad, and welcome. I’m guessing that ‘creamate’ usage is North American and that some AmEnglish dialects would stress the first syllable: cream ate, rather than the version I’m familiar with the stress on the second syllable: cr’mate. The word ‘cream’ has more than mere milky meanings including, I think, inflicting physical damage (?) but I’m having difficulty in imagining what imagery your variant might possess for the eggcorner. Could it be religious – only the good die young -the cream rises to the surface, that sort of thing?

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#3 2007-02-02 18:20:02

jupiter9
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Registered: 2006-10-09
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Re: cremate >> creamate

No Stooges fans here?

“I woulda cremated him, but we ran outta cream.”

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#4 2014-12-27 21:06:54

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1690

Re: cremate >> creamate

Her body was creamed and the ashes scattered in the garden
Memorial

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