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Chris -- 2018-04-11
had a hunch, went searching
“I had an operation for verycose veins, and my legs are cold from poor serculation.”
http://www.geocities.com/lewisinph/ltr98021.html
Clearly the person has spelling problems… but could the very in verycose be meant to convey a sense of extremeness?
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Extremeness in the extremities? I think it fairly likely.
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I have recorded “very close veinsâ€, but I suspect it was a one-off mistake, not an established eggcorn.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I can’t find many web examples of “verycose,” but dozens of sites record “veryclose veins.” Either one works, but “veryclose” is a gourmet eggcorn.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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I’ve heard “very coarse veins” a number of times, but the phrase is usually said jokingly. There are plenty of web hits, too, but the great majority of instances are in quotation marks.
Oldpackrat had a brief note on very close veins here a few years ago:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=870
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