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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Spotted at http://www.irishelection.com/2009/10/dail-reform/
“Parish Pump Politics is one of the great bug bares for people in Ireland. ”
I can’t help but wonder if this one is influenced by our more current computer-related usage, looking at “parish pump politics” as something that exposes a systematic flaw that breaks democracy.
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Isn’t a bugbear something frightening, rather than something erroneous? Granted, in certain professions software bugs can provide plenty of fright.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Yes. It’s one of those words, though, that people seem to use as cliche, and it looks to me that this spelling is trying to add a meaning.
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