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#1 2015-03-26 03:00:11
- Peter Forster
- Eggcornista
- From: UK
- Registered: 2006-09-06
- Posts: 1224
'candle bra' for 'candelabra'
It wouldn’t be difficult for the eye to overlook that extra a in the acorn, and it is quite conceivable that the word has not been heard spoken aloud. Or even quietly. And as a bra is a kind of receptacle for breasts, it surely makes sense that a candle-bra should be a receptacle for candles?
Looking around at the crystal-look blue glass inserts, they compliment the large candle bra hanging from the ceiling which makes it feel cool yet warm and …
Their eyes lock across dim-lit room with candle-bra chandeliers. Sebastian hasn’t seen her in so long, in fact he thought he’d never see her again.
invitations im thinking old style theatre admission tickets….. table centres im thinking black candle bras, draped with pearls. My bridesmaids are …
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#2 2015-03-26 07:29:33
- David Bird
- Eggcornista
- From: The Hammer, Ontario
- Registered: 2009-07-28
- Posts: 1690
Re: 'candle bra' for 'candelabra'
Will surely have my vote for best of the year, hands down.
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#3 2015-03-31 14:03:14
- burred
- Eggcornista
- From: Montreal
- Registered: 2008-03-17
- Posts: 1112
Re: 'candle bra' for 'candelabra'
I can’t take credit for this great visual pun – Kem found it somewhere. The eggcorn might be common. There are more than 400 raw hits of the one-word form, candlebra, though it’s easy to see how that could be a misspelling.
The acorn, candlelabra, defied my ability to parse out the roots. No, that’s not a lip in there, is it? Indeed it is. Although the online etymon dictionary translates candelabrum as “candlestick”, it translates literally as candle lip. Labia are lips, and labrum, a single lip. And clearly, that is the form they have. I’ll never see candlelabras or candle bras the same way again.
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#4 2015-04-01 08:56:14
- Peter Forster
- Eggcornista
- From: UK
- Registered: 2006-09-06
- Posts: 1224
Re: 'candle bra' for 'candelabra'
Although the online etymon dictionary translates candelabrum as “candlestickâ€, it translates literally as candle lip. Labia are lips, and labrum, a single lip.
Remarkable! And where there are lips there are cups; single lips, half-cups perhaps. All this and a matching image too – thanks, lads.
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