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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Hidden eggcorn alert! There’s no crap in crapulent.
According to online dictionaries, ‘crap’ comes from middle english, but ‘crapulent ’ is from the latin word for drunkenness.This isn’t the usual stuff of poetry, but Kem can use it when he decides to add a stanza or two to his ode to hidden eggcorns.
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Bummer. I thought you’d caught somebody using it for corpulent.
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(Which did occasion one of my favorite metatheses: “She’s not really fat—just a little bit porculent.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Speaking of crap-ulent, I see two examples on the web of “deface-cate.” Here’s one:
Blog entry on hamsters: “Firstly, i believe that it was becasue Rossi was not in the frame of mind to run that caused him to lose. if i am correct i believe he wanted to defacecate during the run and hence was not performing as his peak condition unlike the rest.”
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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