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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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Student essays are a rich source of eggcorns. One of mine writes: ” I was confused. I looked at my family’s faces for clearforcation.” This may be a phonetic misspelling, but I can see how “clearforcation” would happen when someone makes things “clear for” you. And someone who doesn’t read (alas, even college students don’t nowadays) might write “clarification” this way.
Another student writes of her minster stepfather preaching from his “pull-pit.” I imagine that evangelical denominations that have altar calls might see the pulpit as pulling in converts, hence “pull-pit.” I’m not so sure about the pit part, though, as the pulpit is usually elevated above the congregation.
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So is the cock-pit of an airplane. Some pulpits are cockpit-like: a sort of wrap-around console surrounding the preacher. Would anyone nowadays have a bull-pit in the back of his(/her/its) mind?
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May not be relevant, but Jesus’ words come to mind: â€If I be lifted up, I will draw (=pull?) all men to myself.†(KJV ±)
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Cool identification of the girl’s stepfather with the minster (=church, with tower/steeple somehow extra prominent in my mind.) But it’s probably a phonological/typographical thing rather than anything eggcornish. (It is common and may well be standard for some.)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-10-07 08:14:34)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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