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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This one has been mentioned on this site briefly in passing.
When he Purpose to Her
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I would be surprised of he purpose to her.
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I purpose that all mining leases in all the Asian Pacific be subject to total transparent ices, and that no minerals produced from mines that are illegal and practice mining methods that are detrimental to the health of the planet be permitted for sale or further processing…
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A men who falls in love with the women. He purpose to her but she refuse him.
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I purpose that we need to scrutinize and reform what for-profit executives are legally entitled to earn much like we do for non-profits.
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He purpose to her with beautiful ring after pretty girl accepted his purposal she is really excited and huge him tightly with long kissing.
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[This one has the added bonus of the word “purposal”.]
i would ask him how did he purpose to her ? and where did they spend the honey moon together ?
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Nearly all of these are from people for whom English is clearly not their first language. I’m guessing that they probably pronounce the words “propose” and “purpose” more similarly than they are supposed to be pronounced, due to basing the pronunciation of one on the template of whichever one they learn first. FWIW, there is an eggcornish meaning connection: to propose something implies a purpose.
And now for the reverse version:
To what propose did Obama spend millions to seal all of his records?
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Scientists still study which gestures developed and to what propose.
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but to what propose you want to do that?
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One problem, if they remove the minni map, then to what propose would spotting serve.
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Yes, but to what propose. They have made them so difficult to find that almost no one want to use one.
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Some of them are doubtless spell-check problems, but definitely not all.
“I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
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Dixon Wragg wrote:
I purpose that all mining leases in all the Asian Pacific be subject to total transparent ices, and that no minerals produced from mines that are illegal and practice mining methods that are detrimental to the health of the planet be permitted for sale or further processing…
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It could be a mistake, but purpose is also a verb.
I purpose that all mining leases in all the Asian Pacific be subject to total transparent ices…
I intend that all mining leases in all the Asian Pacific be subject to total transparent ices…
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And grant that this holy feeding on Thy Body and Blood, which I, unworthy, purpose to take, may be for the remission of my sins, and the perfect cleansing of all my faults…
                                                                                                                      ─from Ad mensam dulcissimi convivii, ascribed to St. Ambrose of Milan.
Last edited by Eoin (2017-06-03 15:17:02)
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Eoin wrote:
It could be a mistake, but purpose is also a verb.
True, but most of my examples were references to a proposal of marriage, thus clearly “purpose” for “propose”, and I chose to include the other two because, in context, they seem much more likely to be proposals to a group than personal intentions.
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