Discussions about eggcorns and related topics
You are not logged in.
Registrations are currently closed because of a technical problem. Please send email to
The forum administrator reserves the right to request users to plausibly demonstrate that they are real people with an interest in the topic of eggcorns. Otherwise they may be removed with no further justification. Likewise, accounts that have not been used for posting may be removed.
Thanks for your understanding.
Chris -- 2018-04-11
That pretty much summons up the things we’ve done so far.
That about summons it up in one line. I enjoyed the character development and plot.
To summon it up we can say that civil disobedience is distinguished by a non-violent resistance to unfair laws
Recorded in both spoken and written forms.
.
This one makes sense to me: when one sums up one typically does so by giving a précis, which (if done well) evokes (“summons upâ€) the essence of what is being summarized. The independent existence of summon up means that many cases can be correctly interpreted either way, but I think you all will probably agree that in the cases cited above (and there are many more) “sum it up†would be the more expected form.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2010-05-13 17:39:18)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Offline
The round tripper (sum up << summon up) was discussed in 2007: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2060
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Offline
Eggcornquistadors. Magnificent.
Offline