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Chris -- 2025-05-10
The Eggcorn Database includes “addition” for “edition”, but doesn’t seem to include the converse, as in: ”...’The Bachelor’ is a magnificent edition to the already impressive catalog of a 26-year-old musical prodigy” (from a review of a CD).
This is apparently not just a misspelling, as this writer seems too literate for that; I read several CD reviews by him and there were no errors. Plus, the meaning connection is there, as any new addition to an artist’s oeuvre can be seen as a new edition, I think. Therefore, it seems that we have a new eggcorn here.
What say you, assembled throng?
Dixon
P.S. This makes me wonder: what percentage of eggcorns are also eggcorns when reversed, e.g., addition-edition/edition-addition?
Last edited by Dixon Wragg (2009-11-21 19:28:37)
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I see lots of examples of “a new edition to” on the web. Seems to me as valid as the edition->addition eggcorn.
We have been calling these “roundtrip eggcorns,” a name David Tuggy came up with ( http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … p?pid=7202 ).
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Thanks for the info, kem.
Yes, googling “a new edition to†yielded about 1,390,000 hits, of which a sizeable minority appear to be the eggcornish meaning.
Dixon
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This was covered earlier this year at http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=3879
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