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Thanks for your understanding.
Chris -- 2018-04-11
Not exactly an eggcorn, this goes in that unnamed category of errors committed by people who have read a word but never heard it used.
I also recommend to look up words in a dictionary and the saurus.
ebooks.ebookmall.com/ebook/225198-ebook.htm –
Robert Desmond’s book, Newspaper Reference Methods, contains a chapter …... since it does not come from a controlled vocabulary list or the saurus.
parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/indexing.html
The books include essential reference books, text books, journals, periodicals, dictionaries, the saurus and encyclopedia.
www.rasslonand.org/html/features.htm
Online Dictionary – Free online English dictionary the saurus and reference guide crossword puzzles Open Directory…
dir.123india.com/computers_and_internet/internet/free_services/games/
In addition the student needs a dictionary encyclopedia The saurus and other reference books …
www.newspaperarchive.com/newspapers1/na … clean.html
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Another amusing, related one:
Peters Page providing a Dictionary/Theosaurus and Calculator.
Perhaps he is home with his theosaurus picking out a new name….
beyond any thing our minds can begin to grasp (had to look in a theosaurus for grasp). It is definitely a lot trickier than most would think!
If I could figure out a plausible imagery connection I suppose it would be a good eggcorn, but somehow divine lizards and lists of synonyms don’t connect yet for me.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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