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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Looks like a confusion with “extraordinary” to me. Google pulls up over 5000 hits, though a lot of them are German-to-English dictionary entries; perhaps “extraorbitant” is either a valid word or a common eggcorn in German, too.
Variant “extorbitant” can also be seen on Google (1900 results) – perhaps from “extortion”.
Examples: http://www.sgshoot.com/forums/showthread.php?t=611, http://www.city-data.com/forum/diabetes … ption.html (both have “extorbitant”); http://www.electro-tech-online.com/memb … ctory.html (uses “extraorbitant”).
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Choice blends, Netroller 3D (it’s almost like being there). And welcome to the forum. Exorbitant seems to foster squashes; yours have achieved a more distant orbit than most. Seen previously: absorbant, absorbitant, absorbanent, exorbiting, exhorbitant, and exuberant.
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/836/exuberant/
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2744
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=3978
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=4893
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Wow! This topic is now #1 in Google for “extorbitant”.
BTW, about other eggcorns around “exorbitant”, see: http://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/fo … 919&page=2
This time, it is probably “prohibitive” that provides the link between acorn and eggcorn.
LATE EDIT: Just found a word that can accurately describe the word “exorbitant”: eggcorbitant.
Last edited by .NetRolller 3D (2011-02-21 16:27:53)
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