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#1 2010-01-02 19:31:22

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

'prime ordeal' for 'primordial'

Apparently reflecting an intuition that times were hard right after the big bang.

Astronomy question: Where did the two first prime ordeal atoms come from to collide in the first place and cause the big bang?
wiki.answers.com/.../Where_did_the_two_first_prime_ordeal_atoms_come_from_to_collide_in_the_first_place_and_cause_the_big_bang

“They can’t even get their facts strate – first they say we come from monkees, then they say we come from some prime ordeal soup, when soup wasn’t even …
www.religiousforums.com/.../87572-creat … ect-3.html

The conclusion, therefore, is that the awakening of this prime ordeal energy is the object for realization although ways and means may be different. ...
www.healthandyoga.com › ... › Psychological Articles

As Hegel and Adler have written, sex is prime ordeal force and the sublime that everybody craves for.
ezinearticles.com/?Religion,-Witchcraft-and-Sex&id=3056319

Space is eternal; no one created it, not even by Prime ordeal Fireball or the Big Bang as claimed by scientists.
internationalreporter.com/.../scientific-discovery-of-ghosts-their-function-series-i.html

Let us instead reap the greater glory of penetrating the prime-ordeal slime and rescuing the pearl – there must be a pearl, where there is so much slime …
www.katinkahesselink.net/other/affirmative.html

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#2 2010-01-03 11:20:50

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2851

Re: 'prime ordeal' for 'primordial'

Love it. Beadwof again, carving up a long-tailed Latin beast* and inserting the AS “ordeal.”
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* “Latin is responsible for many of the long-tailed beasts that roam the jungle of print.” Henry Hitchings, The Secret Life of Words, “ p. 179.

Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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