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Chris -- 2018-04-11
My daughter, who is TAing a course at York University in Toronto, sent me a text message about a student in her class who replaced “half full†with “have full.†Could be a simple misspelling, but it could also be an eggcorn, especially when it is employed as a short version of the saying about seeing a half-full glass rather than a half-empty glass – seeing a “have-full†glass is much more optimistic than seeing a “half-full†glass.
Scores of examples of “glass is have full†on the web. Four of them:
Title on a political post: “My glass is have full, and we do have the guts.â€
Investor forum post: “My glass is have full â€
Site that collects sayings: “It does not matter if the glass is have full or empty. All that matters is the drink you’ve been drinking.â€
Post on a guitar forum: “I’m a very glass-is- have-full person.â€
Reporting myself: Each year I do a number of mushroom workshops, walks, etc. in October and November. While writing an email about a “Wild Mushroom†course I started to type “Mild Washroom.â€
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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