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Chris -- 2025-05-10
This substitution has heretofore been mentioned in the Eggcorn Database only in passing.
He’s a fanboy which compliments his talents as a filmmaker.â€
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HAMILTON ASSOCIATES can provide its clients with a level of objective service which compliments and expands their present capabilities.
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Byron cooks a mouthwatering Potato Gratin which compliments any holiday meal.
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Let our professionals help you choose a color scheme which compliments your image.
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I’ve seen this one lots of times and initially wrote it off as just a misspelling. But upon consideration, I think there’s a plausible meaning confusion here, which may mean it’s an eggcorn for some perps. Both complimenting and complementing make us look good.
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I too keep seeing this in contexts where “complement” is meant, but it is clearly a completion that says something good about the now-completed object of the complement. Or “compliment” is meant, but the compliment makes things perfect or adds the cream on top of the already-perfect complemented object.
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Plenty of times it’s not an eggcorn, but I agree that sometimes it is.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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