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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I pronounce “testimony” as though there were a moan in it – perhaps it’s the religious upbringing. But this morning on the radio I heard it pronounced with the accent on “test” and the last two syllables pronounced as “money”. I have no evidence that the examples here are uttered with a pecuniary image in mind, but they are suggestive, at least, especially the first – although the orthography is pretty random.
You know the pitch—“Do you believe enough for a car? For a new house?”
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Be the God of big results and testermoney. Fat proven testermy that deeply impress legal and interlectual inds. Testermoney that can not be distroyed.
(http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/prayerroo … p=1&i=7046)
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one last thing whatever salann writes its in her testermoney is all rubbish honest guv.
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Nice to read your lovely testermoney. The God is magnificent.
(http://www.40day.com/share/search.php?s … 853b372aa5)
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Not convinced this is eggcornish rather than just poor spelling.
People who absorb information aurally from radio and television rather than visually through reading actual books and quality newspapers and old fashioned things like that sometimes have to simply guess how something is written.
Likewise, the error I often see is testamonial which appears to derive from testament, rather than testimony, but I would not claim this is an eggcorn as there is not alternate imagery at play really.
I also note the pronunciation of -monial is also closer to your emphasis on -mony, I wonder if that is the history for that version of its sound?
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