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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Twice I have received this imaginative substitution in student papers. The context is something like this, “Most wives don’t want to be placed on a pedal stool, but they do want to be respected and esteemed.”
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A version of this is already in the Database: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/297/pedastool/
See the first comment for an eg. of “pedalstool.”
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Examples of “pedal( )stool” added to the entry.
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And here’s another variation:
Student paper refers to taking “the government off its peddle stools.” It took me five minutes of staring at it to realize she meant “pedestals.”
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In this little eggcorn, an unsuspecting YouTube commenter uses peddle stool when pedestal was the word they were seeking.
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(This page mentions the Eggcorn Database!)
I glorified the moment and put him on a peddle stool because I never really got to know him. Like a deity in a religious painting.
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