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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I found this passage on my kitchen-renovations forums:
” The options are to fill in the gap with corain and resurface the countertop, the problem being here that dialots change and 20 years later the new cameo white might not match the old well enough, ”
http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/ki … 17046.html
Of course, it’s probably not an eggcorn, because “dialots” is not a word (though perhaps she thinks it is one, that’s akin to “dialog”?) It is a last name apparently, and I think it’s a common typo for “dialog” (unless those people who used it that way are confused and think that’s the word). And it’s Greek, apparently.
But I think it’s the beginning. And she clearly doesn’t get the “dye lot” meaning, bcs she didn’t even do the expected thing and use “die lot.” I wonder what she thinks a “dialot” is?
The rest of her post is quite well written; she just must have always heard that phrase, “dye lot,” and not realized what it was truly saying.
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