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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I have had several middle school students look at me in wonder when I explained that there was a “g” in this word and how the word “ground” actually made sense as part of it. To them “background” was “the stuff around in the back.” Has anybody else seen this one?
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You can quickly do a search for this sort of thing on Google.
“Back round information” gets over 2500 raw hits.
“Back round check” gets over 500.
In a number of cases, writers have connected the two words with a hyphen—indicating that it’s not just a case of a dropped “g.”
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I joined the forum with this one in mind, to see if it had been submitted yet – “backround” with no space yields 250,000 results on Google, too. It seems to be a very common misunderstanding of the word “background”, in all it’s uses. Lots of sites seem to be using the sans-”g” version … seems like a great candidate for eggcorn-dom…
“Stock Photograph of a Black Desk Lamp on a Red Backround .”
“Interactive66.com has the Webpage Design Backround you need for solid web site Design.”
etc, etc…
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this is classic, I think. Because the background is all the way around the item.
I gotta share this one w/ my mom!
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I just encountered this one recently and decided to resurrect this old thread about it for those who’ve never seen it.
To bad they didnt paint the signing of the Constitution in the back round,they were deplorables too and I’m proud to be a deplorable.
news article
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