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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This one is brand new to me, and, apparently, to this website! I found it in an Amazon CD review: “In fact, it remains me of those horribly, horribly mean-spirited and nasty ‘auditions’ on American Idol…”
Googling yielded around 379,000 hits, of which only a small fraction are the eggcorn, but even that fraction must run into the thousands. Examples from the first four pages of G-hits:
“He remains me of the young kids in the documentary ‘Bible Camp’...”
“Today I found this picture surfing on internet, it remains me of an imaginary portrait from…”
“It remains me maybe a little of some early Steve Vai stuff…”
These examples are among the most literate ones. A high percentage of the others are from writings that are littered with misspellings, fractured syntax, etc., quite commonly including the phrase “remains me to” for “reminds me of”, though I’ve never heard “to” used for “of” in this phrase, and assume it’s considered incorrect.
I think it’s a perfectly good eggcorn, the meaning-connection between “remains” and “reminds” being that when we’re reminded of something, it’s as if that thing has remained in our minds.
Has anyone else ever encountered this one?
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