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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This is one I hear all the time:
“radiheater” for radiator
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Well-spotted, patbateman. A Google search turns up quite a few written examples of the eggcorn.
In the case of a car radiator, the eggcorn is perhaps misapplied, since radiators are cooling devices. But most people associate radiators with heat because they tend to get hot (and sometimes boil over).
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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That’s funny and 100% true—to most people a radiator is the component of a car that help keep it cool. For me, however, it will always be the huge cast iron heating units found in pre-WWII homes.
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