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Chris -- 2018-04-11
#1 2013-05-30 11:51:48
- kem
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- From: Victoria, BC
- Registered: 2007-08-28
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santilleen, Finnish eggcorn
Been reading Historical and Comparative Linguistics (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1989) by the Finnish scholar Raimo Anttila. I came across, on p. 328, an interesting discussion of a Finnish eggcorn. Here’s a photograph of the relevant paragraph:
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Perhaps “santilleen†would be a good Finnish name for an eggcorn.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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