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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Another eggcorn mined from the website:
http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=4047324\
And, in the words of the contributor:
The way my parents said it, I thought “ne’er-do-well” was “nerd-u-el’, like it was just an amusingly fancy way of saying “nerd”. Nerduel, the nerdy bullfighter! —Poppy (poppycoctea…), November 26th, 2003.
I thought there might be some Google hits for “nerd-do-well”, but only one came up:
Confessions of a nerd do well; Far from being an anti-social …’Confessions of a nerd do well; Far from being an anti-social pastime’ from Sunday Herald, The in News & Society provided free by LookSmart Find Articles.
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn41 … _n13957652 – 26k – Cached – Similar pages
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My brother used to be so much more successful than I was, that my brother actually was my boss. And his computer password was SENATOR, but mine was N’ER-DO. And, when I needed time off to get a haircut. I used to tell him that I had to get a new N’ER-DOO.
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Actually, NERDUEL is the angel of information technology.
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