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Chris -- 2018-04-11
These are clearly blends of stunning and astonishing. Hits range from dozens (astunnishing) to hundreds (stunnished).
Gothic vampire music review
No need to mention Sarah’s and Danielle’s vocals… they are just astunnishing!
Bus interior design review
Whoever is in charge of those amazing interior designs has quite the gift! Absolutely astunnishing.
Game review
I played all afternoon and stillcouldn’t stop. The sphere the game created was astunnishing, I almost got a stroke :eek:
Art comment
no matter how many graphic proposals he make, i get as astunnished as the first time i saw his work.
security blog
his remark frankly stunnished me.
Budgie stories
She took over the cage immediately, and while Mitch was looking stunnished at her, she began to eat the tasty hunny sweets I bought Mitch
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Good eggcorn.
Both “stun” and “astonish” are ultimately from the same Anglo-French root. It seems unlikely, though, that those who confuse these two terms are making a conscious effort to bring them back together.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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