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#1 2010-09-17 12:52:17

jorkel
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Registered: 2006-08-08
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Preface-orial for Professorial

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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#2 2010-09-17 15:12:59

David Bird
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Re: Preface-orial for Professorial

Might it have been a spoonerism, as in prefossorial, which could also refer to the imminence of retirement.

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