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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Jan Freeman reports an eggcorn in her Boston Globe column that I can’t find in our database or discussions. Her report is at
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas … ix_priora/
She says:
Buried in last spring’s eggcorn bounty was a delightful one spotted in the Concord Monitor by Barbara Richardson of Amsdem, Vt.: “The family…would like to send a heart-filled thank you.”
Heart-filled as a replacement for heartfelt was new to me, and it hasn’t hit the Eggcorn Database, where such creative misunderstandings are catalogued. But it nets more than 1,500 Google hits.
It’s a plausible reanalysis, since we say hearts are “filled” with emotion. Still, heart-filled, formed like air-filled and cream-filled, would more logically mean “full of hearts” – or “filled with heart,” I suppose, if the subject was a deli sandwich.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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