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#1 2021-03-01 10:15:55

DavidTuggy
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quite < quiet

Paul Brians includes this one (which goes in both directions) in his catalogue, but otherwise I didn’t see it on the site. There are lots of them.

Things are very quite here.

all seems quite until you look a little harder

her brother has been away all this week camping as well and it’s very, very quite here.

I thought of the story of John the Baptist, who wouldn’t keep quite, but spoke the truth.

It’s a pretty quite neighborhood, but in this day and age you never know. Thornfield has a high tech security system, because there are a lot of valuables here, but good thieves can get past anything.

Senate Dems quitely craft proposal to raise debt limit

[he] had been quite all this time […¶¶] Yes, you have been unusually quite, sir […¶] I was quite because I didn’t want to upset you ladies.

Quite often is a calming sort of word, meaning nothing need be changed, no stir need be made. There may be some eggcornish overtones of that sort in some of these usages, or others like them. Many or most cases may be other sorts of errors, of course (metathesis, spell-checker stuff, etc.)

Last edited by DavidTuggy (2021-03-01 10:48:17)


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