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#1 2010-06-07 12:45:45

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1222

'embrawled' for 'embroiled'

I heard (or thought I heard) someone say “enbrawled” where “embroiled” would be the likelier choice. Since embroilment often features conflict which can lead to actual fisticuffs and worse, brawl seems a suitably eggcornish substitution for broil:

If you needed proof that Cox and LUS are embrawled in a good ol fashioned, fiercely competitive, poke your opponent in the eye rivalry, ...

In May 1606 in Rome Caravaggio got embrawled in a fight over a tennis match and killed a man. 22 The most comprehensive psychoanalytic study to date is …

... wronged the former and blah-blah this and blah-blah that… and then get embrawled in the fight… all wanting to join in the fight to protect the ones …

If Europe who just 50 years ago was embrawled in killing each other in WW2 and earlier the same in WW1 could unite after nearly two millenia …

After which, they become enbrawled in a fight between the tribe and the intruders. Ultimately, the hunters are outnumbered and slaughtered. ...

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#2 2010-06-07 23:35:40

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

Re: 'embrawled' for 'embroiled'

First class eggcorn. Blue ribbon.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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