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#1 2011-10-08 09:02:42
- kem
- Eggcornista
- From: Victoria, BC
- Registered: 2007-08-28
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thanksgiving
Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend. I noticed that a local White Spot restaurant announces on their sign that they are serving “pupkin pie.”
Thanksgiving is a gauntlet that vegetarians have to run each year, but I really think this is taking things a bit too far.
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#2 2011-10-08 09:55:43
- DavidTuggy
- Eggcornista
- From: Mexico
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Re: thanksgiving
Tangentially, I ran across a repeated instance of this one yesterday.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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#3 2011-10-09 15:35:34
- David Bird
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- From: Montréal, QC
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Re: thanksgiving
Also off topically, cranberries got their name from a German/Dutch word for crane-berries, based on a fancied connection to the cranial shape of the flowers:
I suspect that the word for cranberries in Quebec, canneberges, is a eggcornical-poteau rosy corruption of cranberry. In the dictionaries, canneberge is “XVIII, origin unknown”. It would be transliterated as “shoreline cane”, which makes sense from its marshy habit. Who knows.
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