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#1 2007-10-27 17:57:31

KMISchutte
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From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: 2007-10-07
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Straineous

Heard the pronunciation “straineous” on a PBS California travel show called “Road Trip with Huell Howser”. (Howser has a distinctive accent.) This is an eggcorn since “strenuous” and “strain” have different etymological origins, and thus slightly different meanings. There are 741 hits for “straineous” on Google.

This is a variation of the eggcorn “strainuous” identified by patschwieterman on 7/17/07: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=1946

Last edited by KMISchutte (2007-10-27 17:58:51)

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#2 2007-10-28 15:20:18

booboo
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From: Austin, Tx
Registered: 2007-04-01
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Re: Straineous

Good hunting, kmischutte. I think the best place for this is to include it with strainuous, since the imagery is the same. I think it helps reinforce the case for eggcorning. I wonder if they were thinking of adding “ous” to “strainy” and changed the “y” to and “e”?

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