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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Because ughits( rairified ) = [only] 12, my guess is it’s probably just slippage or perhaps an accidental idiomatic contraction (or ‘redundification’?). But, the imagery does kind of make sense, especially to a gasping light-headed alpine hiker. It seems to have a faintly low pressure and high altitude, yet elegant stratospheric quality to it.
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I felt I was breathing rairified air with such talent!
http://www.angelfire.com/ky/Billee/Kath … ry2004.htm
Study hard and you to may enter the rairified air of the professional planner someday.
http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9283
Mother is a member in the more rairified strata of the Always Topless, ...
http://www.bikiniscience.com/locations/ … M8812.html
Wilson is currently batting .276 with 11 home runs and 35 rbis; nice numbers but certainly tainted by the rairified air of Denver’s Coors Field.
http://thebeltwayboys.blogspot.com/2005 … archive…
This has always seemed to me a case of “Anything you can do, I can do better! . . .”, in the rairified atmosphere of Hollywood deal-making.
http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php?topic=4516.0
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t always remember to run the speling checker.
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Dunno, I think I catch the sulfur whiff of eggcorn in your rairified examples.
A couple of dozen ughits for “rearified” as a misspelling of “rarefied.” It also smells, but not of eggcorn.
Last edited by kem (2008-07-16 00:21:36)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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rarefied? ( American Heritage gives that as the more standard form, but it does accept rarified.)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2008-07-15 21:08:05)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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You’re right, “rarefied” is the preferred spelling (though I almost always see it written as “rarified” these days). But the word is in the subject line, which means it is set in stone.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Thanks, guys. A good laugh at myself is a great way to start the day! My copy of the OED has no entry for ‘rarified’ and my checker, that I obliviously failed to run, gags on ‘rarified’ air as well. Clearly, ‘rarefied’ is the preferred smelling.
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