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Chris -- 2018-04-11
All over the net… 31,700 ghits.
Maybe sorta eggcornish, people may think that they are engaging in “tugging a war,” or something… but somehow the substitution of a one-letter word for a two-letter word makes it all feel too slight to be definitive. People may just be spelling out the “lazy” way of pronouncing it.
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Two teams of ‘tuggers’ have a ‘war’ by pulling their respective ends of the rope. I idly wondered whether anyone might think it was a “tugger war”. Oh yes…300 googlehits:
“There are all sorts of games to play and last year the big event was the tugger war.” I can’t get it through his head that the game is called tug-o-war. ...
mike.reed.org/mam21.htm – 39k – Cached
Toys I Like:, she likes to play tugger war with a tugger war rope. I Eat:, She eats dog food and she likes the bones that have characters from scooby do on …
me.com/krissy59/Annie/ – 26k – Supplemental Result – Cached
The college has an annual tugger war festival, and the losers get pulled into a mud pit—complete with rocks, glass, and who knows what else. ...
www.ericandleslie.com/forum/viewtopic.p … 6&start=15 – 79k – Supplemental Result – Cached
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Peter Forster wrote:
Two teams of ‘tuggers’ have a ‘war’ by pulling their respective ends of the rope. I idly wondered whether anyone might think it was a “tugger war”. Oh yes…300 googlehits:
“There are all sorts of games to play and last year the big event was the tugger war.” I can’t get it through his head that the game is called tug-o-war. ...
mike.reed.org/mam21.htm – 39k – Cached
Toys I Like:, she likes to play tugger war with a tugger war rope. I Eat:, She eats dog food and she likes the bones that have characters from scooby do on …
me.com/krissy59/Annie/ – 26k – Supplemental Result – Cached
The college has an annual tugger war festival, and the losers get pulled into a mud pit—complete with rocks, glass, and who knows what else. ...
www.ericandleslie.com/forum/viewtopic.p … 6&start=15 – 79k – Supplemental Result – Cached
Well, though mine may not be an eggcorn, yours certainly is. Good find!
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