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Chris -- 2025-05-10
spotted here:
http://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/in … 040AAbkBeZ
maybe this is too technical a term, but this is so cute, I almost hope it catches on.
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I’m afraid that there is a better than even chance that this is a purposeful error designed to draw a response. Contributors of questions to Yahoo Answers get some sort of credit for questions which solicit answers. A common strategy to up the interest in a question is to pose it with a cute, apparently naïve error in it. Such posts are the “bait noir” of eggcorn hunters. The one you’ve linked to has the earmarks of such a ploy.
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It is a cute one, but wouldn’t it be more of a mondegreen than an eggcorn?
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