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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Arnold Zwicky’s blog has a new entry, suggested by Karen Schaffer, for trickle treating as an eggcorn for Hallowe’en trick or treating. That might make sense to a kid who thinks that the slow accumulation of loot comes in as a trickle. Here’s another variation that makes a different kind of sense:
But really could do with some advice/tips on the following: Party games – we are not going treacle treating and the party is from 5-7pm so will be dark.
Mum from Essex
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I love it!
But how many of us still experience treacle directly and knowingly (by that name). If we don’t know the word, it’s a less compelling eggcorn. In other words, this probably makes more sense to word nerds like you’n’me, bro, than most potential perps.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Haha, it’s true that I don’t know from treacle. Apparently it’s just molasses, when it’s not overly sweet narrative. (But how can I have any molasses when I haven’t had any lasses yet). I was performing an eggcorn projection, into the mind of an unsuspecting English perp. A fraught business, admittedly. They seem to be keeping treacle flowing over there, however, if recent pop songs are anything to go by.
Edit: By that last bit I mean that references to treacle are present in recent songs (and in Harry Potter), not that there is anything overly sentimental about British pop.
Last edited by David Bird (2014-12-01 16:35:23)
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Here it is in the wild:
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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