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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Someone who seems professorial may preface his comments with clarifications and disclaimers, whence the eggcorn preface-orial. I find this reshaping more likely to happen in speech than in writing because of the unusual spelling of prefacorial. At any rate, I heard this one in conversation yesterday, and the word “professor” was used in the same context. Not sure what that means.
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Might it have been a spoonerism, as in prefossorial, which could also refer to the imminence of retirement.
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