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Chris -- 2018-04-11
You can choose to see a cleft palate as having a missing or clipped away piece. 100+ ghits:
Suffering from a birth defect called left clip palate, which needs surgery for treatment, the child has been bearing pain for long …
www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20031016/cth1.htm
However, the children who require Clip-palate surgery are provided free of cost treatment by the Amandeep Hospital.
www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/07apr30/state.htm
Further, it depends on functional problems, such as left clip palate, drooling and craniofacial disorders …
www.uptodayte.com/site/en/news/article.php?World…2…
Bulldog vomiting…I forgot to mention that Lulu has a clipped palate—could that cause vomiting? Thanks! Answer: The palate puts them more at risk for aspiration …
carelittle.com/dog-general-chat/g-3938.html
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“Left clip palate” is interesting because one doesn’t find any “right clip palate” on the web. There are 2 unique “left clip palate” and 2 unique “left clip and palate” hits. Might it be a spoonerism working on the general category “cleft lip and palate”, or some other mechanism of letter transfer between words (even unconscious)?
Clipped palate must be genuine.
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I saw three for “left clip and palateâ€.
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“Left clip (and) palate†sure strikes me as a spoonerism or other blendish structure. In every one of the 5 cases the meaning clearly has nothing to do with laterality of cheiloschisis or palatoschisis. (Don’t worry—that’s the first time I’ve ever written either word, and I’ve probably never heard them pronounced, either.)
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Yet the fact that the cleft is typically on one side or the other of the center of the face may be involved; perhaps the fact that left actually gets pronounced when saying the word may induce some degree of activation of the notion ‘left’ in some users’ minds, conceivably prompting the notion that left clefts (how’s that for a haplology-ripe sequence) are typical.
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One might wish the score was higher than 5-0, but the skewing is suggestive. Probably nothing sinister should be read into the fact that the left wins.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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