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#1 2015-02-23 21:21:47

DavidTuggy
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From: Mexico
Registered: 2007-10-11
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skulleton

I heard this one pronounced, then checked the Internet, and (of course) found it there.

He looked evil but majestly, shimbering in deathly gold armer like a skulleton of great power & dignedy.

I applaud them for using an actress that isn’t a skulleton with skin.

A skulleton was staring at me across my room while I was sleeping.

The skull being such a prominent part of the skeleton is plenty of semantic rationale for this as an eggcorn.


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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#2 2015-02-23 23:06:43

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
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Re: skulleton

Should have saved this one for Halloween. Dozens of good examples on the web.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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