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#1 2010-10-25 14:50:21

JuanTwoThree
Eggcornista
From: Spain
Registered: 2009-08-15
Posts: 455

Hog calling

In all the variations that have been logged over the years: ‘beckon call’ ‘beacon call’ and so on, I don’t believe that this has noted:

Teachers love to help souls, so they will be at your bacon call

in a month this will all be over, and I will have him at my bacon call.

l have to rely on you to be there at my bacon call,

WTF is the term, I gather.


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#2 2010-10-25 15:50:30

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1690

Re: Hog calling

Hilariously obscure, if that’s what you mean by WTF, but not a WTF typo, certainly. Bacon and eggcorn, if only we can figure out WTH they think the phrase refers to. Yummy with or without explanation, however.

I don’t think we’ve tapped out that vein just yet, either.

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The other hits are all the same mondegreen of a Billie Holiday lyric:

Waiting at your backend call. Everything I have is yours. My life. My all.

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#3 2010-10-26 00:38:05

burred
Eggcornista
From: Montreal
Registered: 2008-03-17
Posts: 1112

Re: Hog calling

Zounds, back end call is already in the Database.

I’m not really talking to myself, I can’t edit “David Bird”’s posts from this account.

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#4 2010-10-26 23:03:13

kem
Eggcornista
From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2851

Re: Hog calling

I’m not really talking to myself

The fracture of the self prefigures the atomization of individuality. With the loss of ego comes enlightenment.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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#5 2010-10-31 10:45:30

jorkel
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Registered: 2006-08-08
Posts: 1456

Re: Hog calling

Ah,yes, the imagery is perfectly clear to me:

Come to breakfast! Come get your bacon! Ignore my bacon call at your own peril!

I love it! ;-)

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