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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I heard someone say “idealic” in a movie I saw last night (it was either The Unknown Known or Nymphomaniac: Volume 1) and I wrote the word down on my popcorn bag so as not to forget it. (There are so many possible eggcorns I think of but forget about before I get a chance to research them.) A web search yields scads of results. Most of them are just another way of saying “ideal”, but a goodly number of them are apparent substitutions of “idealic” for “idyllic”.
Idealic Mountain Lifestyle with Endless Mountain Views!
real estate listing
Come and join us for the vacation of your dreams in this idealic location.
rental listing
The world of the book is a sunny, idealic suburb with the dark forces of the supernatural creeping in at the fringes.
book review
The eggcornicity of this substitution seems self-evident to me. Chalk it up!
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“Ideal << >> idyll” is part of a larger big fuzzy spot: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=5115
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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