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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A day or two ago, while looking for another eggcorn, I stumbled upon this:
yeah is allstate insurance company its just a cutesy call….
discussion thread
Googling “cutesy call” yielded some other examples, including:
And consultations with Japanese Embassy on the Port of call activity plans with cutesy call plans to the Department of Youth, Solomon Islands Government.
report from the Solomon islands
The chairman of the forum His Imminence Prophet Joene Erue, made the appeal during a cutesy call on the governor in his office at Dutse Government House yesterday.
article from Africa
because the sales person didnt even give me a cutesy call to let me know what is happening…i had to go to the store constantly.
complaint
BUT 2 DAYS HAS BEEN PASSED MY PROBLEM IS STILL THERE AND NO BODY BOTHERED TO GIVE ME A CUTESY CALL SO THAT I SHOULD KNOW WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THE VERY PROBLEM.
complaint
Since the pronunciation of “cutesy” is not very similar to that of “courtesy”, this may be an eyecorn (isn’t that what they call a sort of eggcorn based on seeing the written words rather than hearing them spoken?). The fact that most of the examples I found were from writers whose English was not their first language may be significant. If there’s a meaning connection, I reckon it would be that a courtesy call could be seen as a cute thing to do—but maybe that’s a bit of a stretch.
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