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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The Mariana Trench, near the Mariana Islands, is one of the depest parts of the Pacific. It’s in the news recently because a sub just reached the bottom. ‘Marina Trench’ is fairly common, e.g.,
Sets Record in Dive to Ocean’s Deepest Trench | LiveScienceJun 3, 2009 … It was the first exploration of the Marina Trench since 1998. “Much of the ocean’s depths remain unexplored,” said Julie Morris, ...
feeds.livescience.com/~r/livescience/environment/~3/0wxs41rr35g/090603-ocean-abyss.html
President Bush is protecting endangered wildlife and marine volcanoes by making the Marina Trench and the Pacific Remote Island a monument. ...
aceacademyamericanstudies.blogspot.com/2009/01/marina-trench-made-national-monument.html – Similar pages
May 10, 2009 … The Challenger Deep in Marina Trench which is the deepest point on the earth’s surface (11022 metres below sea level) ...
www.indiastudychannel.com/questions/Question78046.aspx
It is about a guy named Jonas Taylor who went to the Marina Trench and saw a huge white glow.After that he concluded and said it was a Megladon shark. ...
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Slightly more common (perhaps) than “Mariana Trench†is “Marianas Trenchâ€. The trench is not named for a woman named Mariana, but for the Marianas, which (at least acc. to Wikipedia) were in turn named for a woman, Queen Mariana of Austria and Spain.
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Is substituting one proper name for another a possible kind of eggcorn? My answer should be no surprise, yes, it can be a peripheral kind.
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Substituting a proper name of a woman for the name of another woman (as if the trench were “really†named after Mariana but the eggcorners thought it was named after a woman named Marina) would be one kind. Thinking it was named after a woman when “really†it was named after a chain of nearby islands goes a little beyond this. On the other hand, malapropistically thinking the islands were the Marina islands might enter into the picture. And perhaps in some people’s minds the names come from adjectives: “marina†could be the feminine form of the adjective meaning ‘marine’, and Mariana the feminine form of the adjective meaning ‘Marian, devoted to the Virgin’.
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These restructurings are not identical. But none of them are particularly striking. If it is an eggcorn it is not an especially “good†one.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-06-03 14:52:45)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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A marina is a type of harbor, or another name for a yacht club. To me, these associations with the sea make Marina Trench for an under-sea trench a better eggcorn than one derived strictly via proper names.
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