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Chris -- 2018-04-11
You will need to skip past the first 10 or 20 search pages, which deal with Nixon and other presidents but the examples are there.
I’m putting this up as a “slip” but I think the case can be made for an eggcorn in that “impeccable” sources are by definition “impeachable”.....maybe????
The first example, by an Australian TV, political reporter (yes, I know, I know), is the one which first made me aware of peachy sources.
Here goes….
‘’Peter, I’m no sucker. And my sources are impeachable.’’
http://www.smh.com.au/national/tight-ma … -f18k.html
“I eventually found the following explanation from an impeachable source: the well-known and often-quoted Penngrove, Calif., Church of Christ Web site:” http://www.fa-mag.com/component/content … &Itemid=27
“Impeachable sources at the Murtala Muhammed International, Lagos, revealed that Okeke had beaten all security at the airport, traced his way to the tarmac and sneaked into the tyre compartment of a Delta Airline’s plane scheduled to depart for Atlanta, United States.”
http://elombah.com/index.php?option=com … &Itemid=67
“The seller was of the opinion that his source was impeachable and everyone and everything else had to be painted around that, which is not very realistic.”
http://chronocentric.com/forums/heuer/i … ad;id=1300
Last edited by rfwillis (2010-12-01 07:57:03)
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Yes, yes, Impeachable: Unbreachable
Not be be mistaken for Impeachable… variant of Empeachable: worthy of being exalted to the level of a peach; Peachy-keen.
Last edited by jorkel (2010-12-01 15:08:02)
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“Impeccable” and “impeachable” seem like antonyms. We can add this one to our growing list of eggcorns in which the substituted words draw from opposing semantic streams. See http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=3872
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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kem wrote:
“Impeccable” and “impeachable” seem like antonyms. We can add this one to our growing list of eggcorns in which the substituted words draw from opposing semantic streams. See http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=3872
Yes, antonyms. Of course. I got myself confused, earlier.
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Can also be an omission error (they are very common) from unimpeachable .
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What was the old story about a foreigner explaining why he and his wife had had no children? As I recall, she was first pronounced (unfortunately) inconceivable, then unbearable, and finally impregnable.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Nice joke David, that’s a new one on me.
David also makes a good point about an omission error. Given that im- reminds people of in-, they may be hesitant to tack on the un-. (And for some reason I’m reminded of an individual who lit a match near a container of “inflammable” material … thinking it meant not flammable, but I digress).
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