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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Uncommon but definitely eggcornish. Examples:
The revisitism rate is so high that it is obvious that jail is not rehabilitation.
smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=3577596 – 110k
Then what you run into is the “I’m fine, I don’t need this med” mentality, so the revisitism rate in the mental health field for people with serious illness …
www.livejournal.com/go.bml?journal=burn … 3&dir=prev
Question: Do you know the revisitism rate? Under Secretary Hutchinson: I think we have some preliminary numbers that we’ll get for you.
www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/press_release_0483.shtm
You can’t force people to do anything, and the revisitism rates of the world’s jails prove this.
forum.poppies.org/lofiversion/index.php?t13420.html
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This has definite potential – the idea of “visiting the (prison / hospital / what have you) again” makes sense.
My first reaction was that revisit doesn’t sound that similar to recidivism, but then it occurred to me that this might be a sort of metathesis. The sounds are all there, but one must scramble the order of the middle syllables.
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Not as funny, but also a possible eggcorn, is the word “recedivism.” There are half a thousand ghits for the word. Samples:
A blog header: “But notification laws don’t lower recedivism rates by sex offenders” (http://savannahred.blogspot.com/2007/09 … -laws.html)
A definition on a gaming board: “1.Recedivism : The behaviour of habitual criminal.” (http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/english-r … e-256.html)
A summary of a report, summary on the National Center for State Courts web site: “The document proceeds to outline the optimal means by which these programs have been and may be placed into society as a means of curbing recedivism.” (http://www.ncsconline.org/WC/CourTopics … pic=ImpDri)
Presumably some of these are just misspellings of recidivism. But the root word “recede” might be influencing a number of these slips. The person returning to jail “recedes,” they might be thinking, from free society. In favor of this influence might be this site: http://www.sexualoffenders.com/show/min … istry.html . The person writes “recedism,” leaving out a syllable and making the word sound more like recede. Also, note this site:
“The results show that recedivism increases as time passes with rapists ranging from 7%-30% recedivism rate. Child molesters are more likely to recede with rates as high as 40%” (http://prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2167479)
The writer here uses the verb “recede” to refer to returning to prison.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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