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Chris -- 2018-04-11
My students kindly informed me today that I had a mistake in my notes on the life history of birds (in French). I had it that the mortality rate of birds increased as the size of the cuvée increased. I assumed a cuvée was the number of eggs laid down at one time, like a number of bottles of wine, cuvée 1997. No, it should have been a couvée, they said, which is like a brood or covey, from the same root as incubate. A cuvée is a pressing, or by extension, a batch of wine.
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Good one, and from the mouth of the joual, no less.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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