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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I saw this in an excerpt from a movie review on the Rotten Tomatoes website: “Knightley will be a forerunner for an Oscar. She is astounding as Anna.” Meaning-wise, “forerunner” for “front-runner” makes eggcornish sense. I don’t remember ever hearing or seeing this one before, and it hasn’t been mentioned on the Eggcorn Forum. I can’t figure out how to google it in such a way as to get an estimate of how often it may be used eggcornishly. Has anyone else here seen or heard this one?
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If you try “democratic forerunner” or “republican forerunner” you will find a number of these frontrunner >> forerunner substitutions.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Oh, yeah, good idea! It would seem to be an eggcorn in fairly common usage, then.
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