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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Quite what it is about ells and vees that by ear or lip confidently yields revelant for relevant, irrevelant/irrelevant etc continues to puzzle me. Relevation for revelation is part of this confusion but it is tempting to see something more than a mere slip of the tongue in the relivation variant which could suggest a sense of being reborn, an epiphany, a near divine disclosure which the eggcorn ‘revelation’ might evoke.
I don’t understand, if you experienced a relivation like that how can you not be shouting it from the rooftops.
Robert i was on the bus tonight and had a relivation hearing two blokey blokes talking about what they were wearing tonight on a night out …
I suddenly had a relivation! It was dark at the time, so I called up the AA and gave them a story about how I wasnt car minded, and my bulb …
Pat, do I understand that my lack of knowledge about current slang bothers you more than the relivation that the founder of the modern tea party is a racist?
The fate of this piece is unknown, perhaps that itself being a further relivation on the theme?
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I’m trying to imagine how people employing this eggcorn pronounce it. Any chance you actually heard this?
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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As far as I can recall, I heard what sounded like ‘elevation” preceded by an ‘r’, the second vowel suggesting the word ‘live’ (rhyming with ‘give’ rather than ‘dive’ of course).
My wife believes I have an annoying myopia of the ear and frequently pluck unlikely meanings from the most commonplace utterance, too often her own. Handy for spotting possible eggcorns though.
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