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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This is one of may favourites, occasionally used by TV and radio journalists here in Australia. Usage as in, “This does not ogre well for…”
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I’m thinking a bit about your proposed eggcorn…
There is a discussion of AUGER/augur in the Eggcorn Database suggesting that the substitution of “auger†(a boring tool) for “augur†(to portend) is questionable as an eggcorn. Perhaps a misspelling in that case.
The Eggcorn Database » auger“First and foremost, it doesn’t auger well for the state of science education in the United States.†(California Wild: The Magazine of the California …
eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/317/auger/ – 20k – Cached – Similar pages
Google counts on Sept 14, 2006
326,000 “augur wellâ€
58,200 “AUGER wellâ€
717 “OGRE wellâ€
The usage “ogre well†is certainly less common suggesting that it is not just a misspelling. The central issue, really, is whether the person who says “ogre well†has a meaning which involves images of the word “ogre.†One possibility is that we don’t normally expect any good out of an ogre, so that when an ogre does behave well it must be something special. Whence, “ogres well.†(This interpretation of the utterer’s intent will have to be more closely examined by the linguists before being deemed an eggcorn. You are free to offer you own interpretation).
I’ll conclude with a few examples from the web:
“W: Alarums and excusesâ€One or two aspects of the proposal seem not to ogre well, but we’ll cross those bridges when we come to them. Domestic insecurity is only one of the Weary …
www.dystopical.com/W2/week.060502.html – 14k – Cached – Similar pages
Must have been the weather … – Research: composite index …This seems to ogre well for the year. The final sales numbers for 2003 aren’t yet compiled, but it would take a catastrophe to prevent the final OE sales …
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3323/is_1_40/ai_112656517 – 28k – Cached – Similar pages
Disability.Dk… focus on the inabilities of people with disabilities as this inadvertently leads to stigmatisation and categorisation and does not ogre well for equity. ...
www.disability.dk/site/viewdoc.php?doc_id=762 – 23k – Cached – Similar pages
Moneycontrol.com – News, Rupee likely to weaken slightly – TAX …... the US dollar because strong US portfolio investments data and the expected interest rate hikes seemed to ogre well for the greenback in the near term. ...
news.moneycontrol.com/backends/News/frontend/news_detail.php?autono=160034 – 72k – Supplemental Result – Cached – Similar pages
:Pencilatwork.com_Getting StartedBut again, all those so called ‘to be avoided’ things can one fine day ogre well enough to be worth spending some lead. Its at times fun to sketch a simple …
www.pencilatwork.com/gettingstarted.htm – 9k – Supplemental Result – Cached – Similar pages
Just five examples after sorting through 180 cases where “ogre†and “well†are juxtaposed.
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