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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Ran across this one in a comment to the ProfHacker blog at the Chronicle. The writer states that he has aphasia, but I don’t think the condition should rule out his usage as an eggcorn.
“I have described aphasia as trying to solve jig solve puzzles with pieces missing.”
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/A-Brief-W … ote/25291/
Comment 7 from bbaylis to the post “A Brief Word from an Evernote Convert” by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, July 6, 2010, 11:00 AM ET
ProfHacker, the Chronicle of Higher Education
Google search yields no additional instances of this eggcorn.
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Welcome to the forum, Crice. This could be a nice eggcorn, but the rarity and the avowed speech problems of the person at the helm suggest caution. It looks a bit like he/she has made what we delicately call a WTF typo, wherein the brain, primed with the word “solve”, slots it into the spot prepared for “saw”, through a momentary inhabitation of the fingers by devils.
There is another credible-looking hit, in the title for a web page.
Create Jigsolve Puzzle software
http://create.software.informer.com/dow … ve-puzzle/
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Yes, I’m surprised at its rarity. My instincts say that this one should be all over the web, and it isn’t. Spelling catchers would filter out some of the one-word examples (“jigsolve”), of course.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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