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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Listening to a presentation at this weeks SALC conference on language and cognition at Lund University, Sweden, I was distracted in my contemplation of the matter discussed when the presenter said of an unexpexted change that it had occurred “all over sudden”.
Not being sure whether I could trust my ears I turned too Google for confimation, and got it. Some 4600 cases of “all over sudden” in the wild.
I also notice that “all of the sudden” has been reported to this forum a little more than a year ago.
Could it be a whole family of eggcorns being born from one single expression?
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I’m Head Over Heels to read this. This may be one of those “Who Can Blame Them” non-native-speakers eggcorns. Think of our expression “It’s All Over.” We do not even think of it as anything other than obvious, plain language, but it is a thing a person has to learn.
And now, All Of A Sudden, this post is All Over. Over And Out.
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