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Chris -- 2018-04-11
From the Edmonton Journal yesterday:
She tinkles the ivories. He strokes the guitar.
http://edmontonjournal.com/entertainmen … -busy-2017
Tintinnabulous. More on this eggcorn from Language Hat, DCBlog and a tweet from lynneguist.
When widespread eggcorns like this one turn up, the omega-corn recedes a bit into the distance.
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Another pair of words where it’s hard to separate the original idiom from the transformation. Like “home/hone in on.”
We also have a lot of examples of “tinkled pink” Sort of an anticipation error eggcorn.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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