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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Idaho police report: “Suspect had bear-caged (barricaded) himself in his house.”
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Very amusing eggcorn. I like the way a concrete image is constructed from two mishearing of the original. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any examples in the blogosphere.
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vexact – would you have a more detailed reference (for example, date, or paper, date, page where it appeared)? It’s a lovely, but rare eggcorn, so every cite counts.
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Sorry I cannot be more specific. It is in my brainbank.
allen
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A web example:
Post on a recipe site “This man wasn’t going for that so he bearcaged himself in his house with a knife.”
Last edited by kem (2009-12-29 12:59:06)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Hurray! At Christmas is the word made flesh.
The rest of that note was a treasure grove of interesting expressions. I hope it’s not impolite to save it here
Boy did my neighborhood have anight.The neighbor that lives around the corner from me DD was trying to have him commented because he was in a wreck a couple of years ago and his mind had just got really bad.This man wasn’t going for that so he bearcaged himself in his house with a knife.We had 10 car loads of cop plus the swap team out here.All trying to talk him into coming out.After 2 1/2 hours than broke his livingroom window in this man come after them with the knife,why he was doing that some other cops broke down his back door and tazed him.It looked like something that came out of the movies.never a dull mean in my neighborhood.
Eggcorns and WTFT. Two kinds of swap team.
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Another hit!
My brother so paranoid that he bearcaged the door bc of the shooting that happen near our apartment. #Glendale,az #Shooting #oct30
6:54 PM – 30 Oct 2014
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One more hit!
I slammed the door and August bear-caged the door and the window I’d like to see her run away
online fic
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