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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Rock and debris are launched downhill in an avalanche. I first wrote this up about a year ago and for some reason never posted it. At that time I wrote that it was “Surprisingly rare – I saw only 8 total, and at least 2 or 3 of those are questionable.†Either I was being clueless, or there’s been an avalanche of new examples in the past year – I found 2-3 dozen instances. There are many more citations for “avalaunche,†but that seemed as likely to be a misspelling as an eggcorn to me. Examples:
Will california start an avalaunch of USA Bond defaults?
http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/newsbl … -24250.php
The page-turner concludes that a downturn in housing is only the primer for an avalaunch of worse developments to come.
http://prudentinvestor.blogspot.com/200 … tions.html
The railway line was closed by an avalaunch at GlenOgle just before it was due to be closed by the ‘beeching Axe’ in the 60s.
http://callander.fortunecity.com/callander-history.htm
How dare you mess with the trekkies, we’ll come down on you like an avalaunch of bricks you prick.
http://keelknaker.blogspot.com/2005/12/ … music.html
i expect them to announce more games for the japanese public. aswell as many other titles further enhancing an avalaunch of titles this year.
http://n.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=4331&page=13
Last edited by patschwieterman (2009-12-13 01:40:40)
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Like it. It has classic lines.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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