Discussions about eggcorns and related topics
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Chris -- 2011-03-08
Just came across this:
“Last week, more than 90,000 Jews cramped into a New Jersey football stadium …”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/never-mind … teinsaltz/
A Google search turned up more similar references than I expected. For example,
“People being Cramped into a train in China” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LbPGbPaMLI
“In word 2007, I want to view and edit the footnote separator, but in Draft View the whole text of the document is cramped into the left hand…”
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/offi … b42724dd62
I kind of like the idea of pain elided with the image of extreme lack of space.
Is this an eggcorn?
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“Cramp” for “cram” is a likely eggcorn. The two words are part of a “big fuzzy spot” that includes other “cr-” words. In the earlier discussion of this spot I noted that “cramp” can become “cram” (e.g., “crams my style”), but I didn’t mention the round-tripper, “cramp” for “cram” (“cramped in a stadium”). Thank you for adding it.
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