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Chris -- 2018-04-11
If I’m not mistaken, this is the first appearance here of either of these eggcorns:
“I believe his last live show he opened for Jeff Beck before he died of a drug overdose. (Another sad causality to rock’s accesses.)”—from an Amazon music forum.
Of course, these could both be mere misspellings—that seems especially likely in the case of “causality” because of how differently from “casualty” it’s pronounced—but a case for eggcornicity could be made for both of these on the basis of meaning-connection. For instance, the writer attributes a casualty to the causality of “rock’s accesses”. A more likely candidate for eggcornicity, because of the more similar pronunciation of the two words involved, is accesses/excesses. In this context being a rock star gives the guy access to various things which he uses in excess, thus becoming a victim to rock’s “accesses”.
Wow—two new (possible) eggcorns in one sentence! Manna from Heaven!
Last edited by Dixon Wragg (2010-04-27 03:28:58)
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Here are a number of examples of the “access/excess” switch. Found as alterations of the phrase “excesses committed,” they are heavily skewed to the Indian subcontinent and may be evidence a regional language tradition.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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