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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Someone emailed me today about a student who gets “ceasures”, and this eggcorn doesn’t seem to have been mentioned on here yet.
Adrian
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The Eggcorn Database does contain a few contexts where “cease” replaces “seize,” but I think one might be able to argue that the current usage is sufficiently different from the others. Although “seizure” derives from “seize,” the usage “sudden attack from a disease” seems to be remote enough from the usual sense of “seize.” What I particularly like about the mistaken usage “ceasure” is it’s apt description: A person having a seizure certainly does cease normal activity for a while. From this standpoint, the current eggcorn seems to make more sense than the other examples of cease/seize in the Database.
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