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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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The kilt is the traditional dress of Scotland’s Celts, and it’s strongly associated in many people’s minds with other Celtic paraphernalia, like the bagpipes. The kilt>>celt confusion seems fairly inevitable.
This probably isn’t quite an eggcorn – “celt†just doesn’t work well enough in context, and the few instances where someone capitalized “Celt†looked like jokes. Maybe Arnold Zwicky already has a catchy name for associative malaprops like this, but I can’t think of it if he does.
Someone on Yahoo Answers asked about wearing celts:
Why does Jonathan Davis Of Ko?n always wear a celt?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 819AAL5lPn
And the respondent answered in the same spirit, adding the bonus of “under wareâ€:
to have the freedom of not wearing under ware with a celt gives plenty of space for your private parts
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 819AAL5lPn
Other examples:
Scott’s ancestors are from Scotland. That is why he sometimes wears a celt.
http://deepcreekhotsprings.net/dchs/for … h_threads=
I got my brother to wear a skirt once and it was the most funny thing I saw besides when one of my teachers wore a celt to school
http://www.bleachforums.com/showthread. … you/page98
I’m surpprized that he didn’t wear a celt and play the bag pipes.
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Center-Ea … geNumber=4
Forget the accordian at breakfast…bagpipes and you must wear a celt…
http://www.facebook.com/MorningsWithBra … 2732863052
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I love it, very funny one. I vote eggcorn. Clearly they’re not imagining strapping a Iron Age tribesman around their loins – or are they?
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I also vote eggcorn for this excellent find. Yes, it has the making of a malapropism, but let me turn this on its head; It’s entirely possible that someone might think that a kilt is actually called a Celt (with the “k” sound). Furthermore, that same person may think that “Celtic” is a reference to that tribe known to wear the Celt (by which I mean kilt). So, in a way, there’s a stealth eggcorn lurking in word Celtic … even if we decide that the Celt/kilt mixup is a malapropism. (And, if that explanation isn’t crazy enough, consider this: How many other malapropisms have a stealth eggcorn coexisting alongside in another word?)
All said, I suppose it would be easier to make a case for the reshaping “Kiltic” as an eggcorn…
Arabic, Live with parents, Swimming Singles – Page 1 – Online …Favorite Musicjust found out i love kiltic music Go Irsh, like rock pop rap/r&b lil … poetry and stories ! have a good under standing mind to people ! ...
wwws.speeddate.com/.../Arabic_Live+with+parentsSwimming-singles-search-9_5430_191_65_366-p-1.html – Cached
Last edited by jorkel (2010-08-28 22:13:01)
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I have come to think that the best short definition of an eggcorn is “a (standard) malapropism that makes senseâ€. And yes, I think stealth eggcorns lurk in very many malaprops.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2010-08-30 06:07:13)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I think it’s a DNA eggcorn, in either direction. The user has taken something associated with a celtic (Scottish) culture and substituted the name of the typical wearer for the garment, or vice-versa.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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