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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Can proper names be Eggcorns?
Perhaps the antihero of Lautréamont’s book Les Chants de Maldoror, an evil, vampiric figure, smells bad?
answers forum I have the dry point etching “les chants de malodor suite, remarque”
book review Others have read Lautreamont’s Malodor and Rimbaud without perishing.
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Can proper names be Eggcorns?
I think they can. We’ve been calling this type “anti-Lehmans”—they reverse our Annie Lehmans.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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