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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Richard Viguerie, in a June 9 interview on NPR, said that he had never seen “anger so deep and palatable” among conservatives who are disappointed in President Bush’s performance.
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This morning my wife pointed out to me an example of this slip from a book she is reading – the author had used “palatable” in a context that required “palpable.”
this is an extremely common switch. A search for palatable sense yields hundreds, even thousands, of hits, almost all of which are substitutions for “palpable sense.”
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Yeah, I recently heard this on an episode of “Chopped Champions”: “His stress is palatable in the room.” (Not sure I remembered the wording exactly accurately, but he did say “palatable” for “palpable”.) I think that’s the first time I’ve encountered that one.
But how about the other direction: “palpable” for “palatable”? Googling “palpable dish” yielded about a dozen unique hits, such as:
There was not one palpable dish along the entire trough line.
Despite trying almost everything on the buffet, i couldnt find a single palpable dish.
Then he went for the woman’s collum in the Journal, to see if he couldent use up some left ovars, making a dainty and palpable dish.
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