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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This one’s only been mentioned here briefly in a list posted by jorkel back in ‘06.
Is cardata a bonafied company?
Q&A site
Has anybody found a bonafied Spare tire solution?
Mercedes-Benz discussion
Thieves and pirates on a ride
It’s a hippie commune bonafied
song lyrics
Clearly the perps are assuming the existence of a verb “to bonify”. The Online Slang Dictionary defines “to make (one’s) bones” as: “to earn a respected position in a field of work”, and since one may well “bone up” on a subject to become credentialed or expert, I don’t think it’s too far-fetched to attribute such a meaning to the imagined verb “bonify”. So I think a case could be made for the eggcornicity of “bonified”.
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I think the case you make has some merit – I couldn’t see any clearly eggcornish content in the entry on bonified in the Eggcorn Database. Mind you, I often think that certain ED entries have much less merit than many eggcorns which languish here in the Forum.
Last edited by Peter Forster (2014-07-19 06:37:19)
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I’d searched this site under the “bonafied” spelling (in keeping with the spelling of “bona fide”) and only got one hit—the brief listing I mentioned above. I didn’t think to search under the “bonified” spelling, which yields nine hits, some with discussion and examples. Oh, the travails of eggcorn investigation!
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Bonify might also have the idea of gelling or ossifying from something uncohering or unsolid, friable or gelatinous, into something with a fixed shape. That was (I think) what first came to my mind when I saw (and fell in love with) bonified years ago.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2014-07-20 12:34:36)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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