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#1 2010-07-12 11:03:59

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

'tentament' for 'tenement'

Tents and tenements are both downscale housing.

BlackSun Squats – A tentament and shanty town built on the western docks of escaped slaves and refugees. It is a filthy and dangerous place, ...
dmsteve-jp.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/.../nightshade.pdf

When Bob Toll said that my generation would be living at home until we turned 40 he wasn’t kidding; a $400k one bedroom that looks like tentament housing …
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This is much better than a crumbling tentament.
www.irvinehousingblog.com/.../how-to-lo … al-estate/

Bello, 20, was found life-less in a hallway of a tentament in the Bronx section of New York City.
boxrec.com/media/index.php/Billy_Bello

This product is effective even in a tentament where roaches are prevalent.
www.domyownpestcontrol.com › Maxforce Products

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#2 2010-07-12 11:24:42

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2872

Re: 'tentament' for 'tenement'

You have set my eggcorn antennae aflutter.

I seem to recall making this error myself….


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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#3 2010-07-12 11:44:26

DavidTuggy
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From: Mexico
Registered: 2007-10-11
Posts: 2752
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Re: 'tentament' for 'tenement'

I am in tenetive agreement.


*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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