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#1 2010-06-26 12:55:09

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1702

"version" for virgin

Being described as still a version in the following instances must indicate that in the speaker’s mind you’re still the original version.

Potter fanfic
They just jumped on each other, shagging quicker than two rabbits could, anywhere and in front of anyone. Viola knew this was inappropriate—she was, of course, raised in a very respectful family—and she did not participate in these activities. Of course, that didn’t mean that she was still a version. She just did not do it as much or as obvious like many other Slytherins did.

Blog
Jason actually made it a few rounds into the show until the “Bachelorette” (Jen?) found out about his Christian values and that he was still a version, then she did not offer him a rose.

Kiss and tell blog
No clue how he did it, and pretty sure he didn’t either as he told me he was still a version when we met.

Can two versions of the word exist side-by-each?

Collaborative rock fantasy
She’s always worried if she’ll be alone for her whole life, if anyone likes her, and when she’ll lose her virginity. Oh, did you not know that? Yup, she’s still a version.

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#2 2010-06-26 14:49:49

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

Re: "version" for virgin

there’s an old post on ‘extra version olive oil’-

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=1919

which I would regard as an interesting special case of this substitution.

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#3 2010-06-26 15:18:43

DavidTuggy
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From: Mexico
Registered: 2007-10-11
Posts: 2752
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Re: "version" for virgin

Does a version have aversion to sex?
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This one roundtrips: I always liked the phrase “the unexpurgated virgin”.


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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#4 2010-06-26 15:46:46

David Bird
Eggcornista
From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1702

Re: "version" for virgin

Oops, sorry about that oversight. I wondered how one might find other versions of this one and was stumped beyond the “still a version” that’s the base of all of these examples. Shudda searched the forum!

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