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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The Carrion Crow breeds in Western and Central Europe and feeds upon, amongst other things, carrion. The dialect I was brought up in didn’t sound the ‘g’ in words ending in ‘ing’ so as a child I assumed the carrion crow was a ‘carryin’ crow’, especially as it was frequently seen carrying things in its beak. (At around the same time I acquired from mischievous adults the word ‘shite-hawk’ for seagull, for which I was severely reprimanded when I innocently repeated it.)
And you stand perched there on a post, right in the middle for all of the world to see, a fool to the carrying crow. Those Old Black Crows will perch on …
www.geocities.com/redmondrose/ScareCrows.htm – 14k – Cached
... she had a few slips out of the car window as she started to get the hang of it as shes only ever done it once before she nailed a nice big carrying crow …
www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/lofiversi … 13870.html – 11k – Cached
Whilst Lay is getting laid . . . out to rest, his lawyers are perched on his doorstep awaiting the proverbial soul carrying crow to depart so they can …
blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2006/07/kenneth_lays_gr.html – 71k – Cached
The last example could support the ‘carrying for carrion’ interpretation through childhood and into adulthood.
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This one makes a lot of sense, and rings a bell from my own childhood.
(I noticed that the last two eggcorn suggestions in the Forum were based on the -ing ending. Just coincidence?)
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