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#1 2014-04-24 00:12:57

Dixon Wragg
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From: Cotati, California
Registered: 2008-07-04
Posts: 1375

"downside" for "downsize"

The other day I stumbled upon this somewhere online:

Works great, trying to downside as I own two processors and want to sell one of them.

Since I’m afflicted with eggcorn fever, that triggered a feverish search of the ‘Net (searching on “to downside”), which yielded at least a couple dozen examples, such as:

I loved this amp, but I’ve got way too much stuff and have to downside.
YouTube video caption

Absolutely nothing wrong it . My older family member have to downside and can’t take it with them due to space.
Craigslist post

I just had too much gear so have to downside a little.
eBay listing

Seems eggcornish to me.

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#2 2014-04-24 10:41:02

kem
Eggcornista
From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2851

Re: "downside" for "downsize"


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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#3 2014-05-01 02:56:55

JuanTwoThree
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From: Spain
Registered: 2009-08-15
Posts: 455

Re: "downside" for "downsize"

Hotel Patria: The downsize is the breakfast room, its small.

The downsize is that block deduplication takes more processing power and requires a much larger index …

The downsize is you have a smaller sweet spot to hit the ball with


On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.

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