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#1 2015-08-07 11:46:19

daveh
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"A run and jump" for "A running jump"

“At those prices you can take a run and jump” in a Facebook comment on a restaurant menu.

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#2 2015-08-07 16:13:59

DavidTuggy
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Re: "A run and jump" for "A running jump"

The meaning ranges overlap so perfectly it looks like a shoe-in eggcorn. And not our first and/-ing pair by any means (e.g. this one ). But are we sure which (if either) (is or was) the acorn? Both are perfectly legitimate examples of well-established constructions ([V-ing N(<V)] and [N(<V) and N(<V)]). They may well be independent formations, the first like a standing start and the second like a hop, skip and jump . Or either could have been eggcorned (via mondegrenous mishearing) off the other. The fact that running jump is better established for most of us does not really settle the question.
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Is skipping jump (which you can find on the Internet) eggcorned off skip and jump ?

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#3 2015-08-09 12:16:13

kem
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Re: "A run and jump" for "A running jump"

More on “running jump” from five years ago: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=4913


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