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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I find it outrages that individual members are charged €84 for on-line access (with paper only being only €73!) to the journal.
I also find it outrages that the hospital that Israelis opened to treat injured Palestinians in Gaza remains empty,
no just a lot of people do not find it outrages therefor no need for a coverup.
Google reports about 9k examples.
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The outrageous/outrages mix shows up elsewhere, too, in both directions. Quite often it may well be just a misspelling, e.g. where the correct spelling is used in the near context. And of course some may be spell-checker errors built on typos or other misspellings.
That’s Outrages Michael Crowley. Michael Crowley is the voice behind “That’s Outrageous,†a monthly column that appears each month in Reader’s Digest.
“That’s outrages! There has to be a way to revoke it! I’m gonna give that judge a piece of my mind!â€
It outrageous me, that this murderer has a TV in his cell. He should only get what Lacy has right now.
Anyhow, in the case of “(I) find it outrages†there is a very nice eggcornical analysis available: “I find [that] it outrages [me/whoever]â€. And the high numbers (if you can trust them) do seem to indicate that this is well-established.
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Dang, I like this one!
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Dang, me too!
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I really think is probably a spelling error. I could only find 12 ughits for “find/found it outrages.” And only 6 for “it’s totally outrages.” But I found 43 for “find it ridicules” and 24 for “it’s totally ridicules”—which has much less eggcornish potential than “outrages.”
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Bizarre. I find it outrages, not to mention ridicules, that Google would report approx 9000 hits and then reduce them to 12. Yes, you are probably right. Bummas.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I find 67 ughits for ‘enrageous’ and 107 for ‘inrageous’ and although many are wordplay, some aren’t. Rage out, rage in, rage en, it reminds me a little of how cheated I felt as a child when I discovered that flammable and inflammable meant exactly the same thing – what were those adults playing at? And what, now I wonder, are we playing at? It’s outrageous, inrageous and enrageous.
As for numbers, I no longer take any notice at all of raw hits – I plug along to the end of the 7 million and find it’s 670. And they aren’t all ‘unique’ either. I think I might start using “Hakia”, as suggested by rogerthat many months ago. ‘Uhhits’ won’t mean I’ve mistyped or that I’m I’m temporarily indisposed, but only that I’m having a little walk somewhere else, that’s all.
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Film review:
The lighting is lushes and natural beauty of these women is staggering.
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500155/)
Resort review:
This bar is absolutly amazing!!! The food is gorges and it’s totally family friendly
(http://www.ctreviews.co.uk/bars/bar-inf … m?barid=18)
Fishin’ addiction:
You have entered a periles path turn back while you still have your sanity.
(http://www.flyfishingforum.com/flytalk4 … hp?t=25357)
Drug use in sports:
Im not happy with my mistakes but To be the person I am at this very moment Is a wondres gift.
(http://www.chronicleforums.com/Forum/sh … ?p=1376689)
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