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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I did a quick search on your site and didn’t find a reference to “full proof.”
There are tons of Google hits, including this one which fancies it up with a hyphen:
http://www.recipezaar.com/110419
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This one’s never made it to the Database, but it gets submitted from time to time. Here’s an earlier submission with analysis and examples (smooshed for the blockquote format):
#314 Commentary by Bogus Trumper , 2005/04/06 at 4:29 pm
I see a lot of people using “full proof.†I suppose what they mean by that is that the foolproof something has been through a rigorous proof like a geometry proof. Maybe it would be a “half proof†if they only got half way through the proof?
Until they can find a full proof method for testing, steroids will be impossible to stop.
My idea’s are FULL-PROOF and my jokes are plentiful so nobody gets frustrated by me.
However, words direct from the trainer’s mouth, although not full-proof, tend to be the best “tipâ€, and one leading exponent of his profession chatted yesterday about one of his big hopes which is engaged in this afternoon’s Doncaster Mile.
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My name is Nick Jones, I am a proofreader based in the UK, and I set my business up in 2004. It was really hard to think of a good name, and I was so pleased when I thought of Full Proof because I’ve always been into puns generally, and ‘full proof’ struck me as a bit of a peach!
Perhaps I shot myself in the foot though, because whenever I google Full Proof, I am always in the number two spot after this page! It’s educated me though – I must admit I had never heard of an eggcorn before…
Nick Jones
Full Proof
Last edited by Full Proof (2010-07-08 18:54:01)
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Welcome to the forum Nick. Not surprisingly, more than one of our regular contributors works/has worked as a copyeditor/proofreader. You have access to more primary sources of malapropisms and eggcorns that the rest of us do.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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As an cultural aside, the word “full”, pronounced as “fool”, was briefly popular as a slang word among francophone “ados” a few years back, signifying “completely, over the top”. As in “full grano”, to describe a vegetarian restaurant graced with images of Shiva and frequented by granolas.
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