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Chris -- 2025-05-10
bonfire – 6,290,000 ghits
bombfire – 501 ghits
As a young child I thought bonfires were ‘bombfires’; that’s what everyone seemed to call them and it seemed to make sense. I was reminded of it in something I read today and googling it reveals that this eggcornish misapprehension remains alive and well. It does seem to be a mainly BrEnglish variant, though I haven’t waded through all the citations…
Guy Fawkes, They celebrate Guy Fawkes because someone called Guy Fawkes tried to blow up house of parliament, so on the 5 of November, they have a bombfire …
lvillage.education.vic.gov.au/lv/beps/hp.nsf/PreviewHomePages/madisonpalmieri – 10k – Cached
Each year on the day after Thanksgiving, the Residents of Redstone, CO gather for a large bombfire in the parking lot of th Redstone Inn. They gather a …
shaych.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html – 69k – Cached
Social: What do people think about having a bombfire night party at the club? 4. Welcome to the Aldenham Sailing Club Members’ Forum, 3 …
www.aldenhamsc.co.uk/.../index.php?PHPS … and=200510 – 67k – Cached
... but back then, it was just us all sitting around having a drink with a little bombfire, yes we caused trouble but we was young (i was never a chav, ...
www.chavtowns.co.uk/modules.php?name=Ne … e&sid=1000 – 35k – Cached
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Apologies to siameez who posted this on 3rd January 07 – I checked both the Eggcorn Forum Search and the Eggcorn Database Search as well as Google but somehow it didn’t register.
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