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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I stumbled upon this while investigating another word:
I would swallow my pride/ I would choke on the rhine/
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Here are a few examples of “rhine” for “rind”:
I gave the dogs a piece of watermelon rhine with some watermelon still left in the bottom and they were eating small chunks of the actual rhine.
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Watermelon green fondant color is the color of a watermelon rhine.
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Finding examples of the substitution from the other direction—“rind” for “rhine”—is complicated by the fact that there are at least a couple of rivers on the planet that are really named “Rind River”, but I did find at least one likely example referring to the well-known Rhine River in Europe:
Louis XIV-Versailes his goal was to gain land on eastern borders on rind river, used versailles to tighten control on nobility, and to excape mob
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Eggcornicity is doubtful as I can’t think of any likely meaning-connection. Probably just a spelling error—but a common one, at least in the “rhine” for “rind” direction.
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