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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This occurs about 800 times and rises to eggcorn level when a nautical theme is otherwise present: More generally, perhaps people think of an apprentice ship as a means to launch one’s career, taking the metaphor too literally. (‘intern ship’ and ‘preceptor ship’ also turn up)
Before this, he served an apprentice ship to. wooden boat building at John Tyrrell & Sons before pursuing a career in the Merchant …
www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/ … rounds.pdf
He served an apprentice- ship of six years and then joined the Allen steamship line.
www.secstate.wa.gov/history/images/publ … 1_0001.txt
I am seeking a career change, and feel an intern ship would be the best way to … Boats & Sailing. · Local Tourism. · The Great Outdoors …
geneva.angloinfo.com/forum/topic.asp?topic_id=899
Following graduation, he completed a preceptor ship at Apollo Animal Hospital, Huntsville, Alabama.
rbcpetclinic.com/meetthevet.htm
I went out of school with 18, didn’t study but had an apprentice ship in a company where I worked in sales and marketing. ...
www.city-data.com/forum/daily-journals/ … urnal.html
ive been looking for an apprentice ship for 9 months now.
www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/684012.just_ … tattooist/
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Google estimates that “apprentice ship/apprentice-ship” occurs more than 30K times. Of the 1000 sites that Google lists, about 800 are unique, so would be reasonable to guess that the phrase occurs on about 20K pages.
How does this differ from friendship, authorship, kinship, partnership, directorship, craftsmanship, horsemanship, sportsmanship or seamanship? Each of these words occur in thousands of web pages on which the ”-ship” morpheme is separated from the head word.
Last edited by kem (2008-10-15 21:05:19)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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