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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Shared by a friend who is a middle-school English teacher: a student was talking about how he has a “high self of steam.”
It’s easy to see how he had misheard it all his life, and possibly conflated it with the idea of steam=energy (“running out of steam”) or even the tale of the Little Engine That Could.
Eggcorn? or not an eggcorn?
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Welcome to the forum, Viking.
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It’s the real thing, a prime article. It has been reported before, though, in fact several times. See here and here , for instance.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2010-10-26 15:19:55)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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David Bird also added some great variants here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2259 (See entry #6 in the thread.)
Last edited by patschwieterman (2010-10-29 20:08:31)
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