Discussions about eggcorns and related topics
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I found a recipe for “Tuna Tar Tar” on allrecipes.com, and a few hits on Google, including a restaurant menu. I imagine the writer thought that “tar tar” is a Chinese pairing, like “dim sum”?
A question (probably already asked and answered): Can you limit Google to exactly what you’ve typed—in other words, prevent it from correcting “Tar Tar” to “Tartar” and mixing the results indiscriminately?
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Put “beef tar tar” in quotations (like that) in the google window and you’ll eliminate all the “tartar” responses. You won’t eliminate the “tar-tar” responses—google’s default seems to see a space and a hyphen as interchangeable, and I wish I knew what to do about that — but the great majority will be what you’re looking for.
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