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#1 2024-03-16 05:06:28

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1224

'to and throw' for 'to and fro'

An understandable over-compensation as the rampaging th-front frettens the few folk still clinging to veir dental fricatives, voiced and unvoiced. Fro is a bit of an oddity I suppose, and to and fro could suggest something being passed from one to another, then thrown back again, and again.

All too many times has a thread moved away from the real issue and moved over to insults being passed to and throw.

Throughout history, the town has been passed to and throw between Spain and Portugal, influencing the architecture in the town, which is a …

The void of nothing that enclosed her world moved to and throw like waves on the shore.

Ride it all night long at the party, swing it to and throw on the dance floor, and try not to knock people out with your newest and longest addition.

Fletcher stares out of his window every night. There are shadows moving to and throw.

Handle bars started moving to and throw. I just locked my left arm and gave it all the throttle it had.

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#2 2024-03-27 07:10:46

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2853

Re: 'to and throw' for 'to and fro'

Such an obvious eggcorn, so late discovered.

“My pafology” in American Fiction comes to mind.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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#3 2024-03-28 14:06:39

DavidTuggy
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From: Mexico
Registered: 2007-10-11
Posts: 2715
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Re: 'to and throw' for 'to and fro'

“Frettens” is my new word-of-the-day (or week or more).


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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