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Chris -- 2018-04-11
More hens laying eggcorns outside the coop. 1 This time there are some real eggs in the nest.
(1) “I’d be remiss” turns in to “I’d be remorse.” About two dozen examples on the web.
(2) The explanation about “ends meet” is intriguing:
Growing up I thought the phrase “ends meet†was actually “end’s meatâ€. I assumed that the end of the meat was the cheapest cut, so I thought that the phrase referred to people who were in such dire straits that they couldn’t even afford “end’s meat.â€
A second, similar confession is here.
But is there any non-confessional evidence? We do, it is true, have oodles of people writing “ends meat” for “ends meet.” They could just be poor spellers, though.
On the other hand, a lot of web pages do resort to the suggestive apostrophe. In this case, we would not only have to assume a misspelling, but also the addition of a greengrocer’s apostrophe. I’m beginning to think this might be a real eggcorn.
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1 It is possible that the folks at The Dish, with 200 posts a week and 100K+ tweet followers, may think that WE are the wandering poultry.
Last edited by kem (2014-09-21 09:35:03)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Making ends meat is a classic, having been sighted here, here, and here, and entered into the Database here.
There are simblings, about earning your supper, I think.
That year the fishing season was at a record low. a-lot of fisherman nearly went bankrupt, while others had to sell there boats to make inns meat!!!!!!!!!!!
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They all see how I’m struggling to make inns meat, to provide for them.
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Poor Don Bluth, however, has had to make due teaching animation at a college to make Inn’s meat.
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Both her mother and father worked very hard to make inn’s meat.
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Also out there is making inns meet, but I couldn’t figure that one.
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Oops. Forgot an essential step—check to see if it’s already in the Forum (in my defense, I did check “remiss”).
“Inn’s meat.” Excellent.
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More user-reported “eggcorns” from the Dish: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/09/ … orn-ctd-4/
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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