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Chris -- 2018-04-11
It seems in a press release last night, the City of New Haven, Connecticut, created an eggcorn. Apparently combining the meaning of “aggravated” (as in aggravated assault) and “egregious” to describe the conduct of a club whose management had violated fire codes. See the article here: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/inde … ty_charge/
“Putting aside other violations like underage drinking and allowing mixed age private parties, having an establishment 71 percent over legal occupancy is an aggregious violation,†the release said. “The NHPD took this matter seriously and Chief [Frank] Limon drew a particular connection to this hazardous situation remembering his experience with a fatal overcrowding club investigation he led in Chicago.”
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Very nice. A blend with strong eggcorn markings.
And welcome to the forum.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Egregious is a great word that few could parse into meaningful roots. It was originally entirely positive, meaning “outstanding, in a class of its own” from roots ex- and grege, “herd, flock”, a root that we have in gregarious, so “out of the crowd”. It began to be used ironically in the late 16c.
I wondered if aggravated and egregious were the only flavours in aggregious. Is there some aggrievement? Multiple or aggregate sins? Here are some alternative blends that I turned up (all are rare to nonces):
Resto critic
Surprisingly enough though, I havent seen a burger on their list with an egg. Certainly an egrievous gap in their menu!
Reformed doctrine
The common objection is that error is less egrievous when present in the doctrine of small numbers of people.
Religious persecution blog
This is outrageous, brothers and sisters! It’s absolutely an eggrevious violation of human rights
Sports Fan Voice
That fine is obsessive and egreedious and it should be recinded and you know it!!!
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It’s a pity eggrevious isn’t more of an eggcorn. A greviously beautiful blend, though.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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