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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This gem was seen on Yahoo Answers this morning: “Encase anyone wanted to know”
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Ahoy there, Sailor! Welcome ahorse, or ashore, or something!
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It’s an interesting substitution—a gem, as you call it. To be a good eggcorn it should also (a) make sense and (b) be standard for somebody.
(a) I don’t see too well what sense a person would make of it. How does the meaning of encasing fit with the contexts where one uses “in caseâ€? If someone were to say “Enwrap somebody wanted to knowâ€, would we have any idea what they meant?
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(b) It would be good to have either confirmation from a user that this is standard for him or her or failing that enough Internet hits (especially repeated hits) that it seems improbable for all of them to be one-off errors or jokes.
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btw, the spelling “incase†is very common, so the word-division thing may not mean much for the restructuring.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Five hits on the first four pages of a Google search (for encase anyone), including this one “just encase anyone is getting Bord of whats on tv and want to watch a movie”.
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