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#1 2014-10-29 20:09:12

burred
Eggcornista
From: Montreal
Registered: 2008-03-17
Posts: 1112

shufflebutt, scufflebutt and scuttleboat

Pat’s amazing list of eggcorn also-rans, most of which coulda been winners, included shuttlebutt as an eggcorn of “scuttlebutt”. It’s not hard to find shuttlebutt shuttling its butt from ear to ear out there.

shuttlebutt going around that Daniel Mclemore may get drafted in the 4th round . I heard this throught the nfl grapevine
sports forum

The acorn, scuttlebutt, has an interesting origin in sailor’s slang. The ship’s crew apparently had a custom of gathering at the water-cooler, which was a cask having a hole, or scuttle, opened in it to receive a dipper. A butt was a barrel, related to the French roots that also gave us “bottle”, as opposed to the Germanic “thick end”, ultimately “posterior”.

A variant making the rounds is scufflebutt, jostling for attention.

Recently, on a corpmate’s blog, there has been alot of scufflebutt….yes, scufflebutt about logging off as an escape tactic.
blog

Just reading scufflebutt and saw that yet another yacht sales outfit has gone pop
http://www.ybw.com/forums/archive/index … 63842.html

But the simbling I found most intriguing was scuttleboat. To scuttle your boat you must make a hole in the hull below the waterline. It doesn’t make much sense as an eggcorn unless the idea is that the rumour being spread will be damaging. Otherwise it would have to be a kind of mondegreen whereby scuttling has been reunited with its nautical roots but without thereby providing a logical connection to the true sense of scuttlebutt.

Let’s say as a result of your hard work and scuttleboat, you have determined that company A is valued at a minimum of 50 cents
stock trader scuttlebutt

Chat on message boards, including Silicon Investor is raising temperatures round the world and some Intel cooling technology could well be in, rather than out of order. According to the latest Scuttleboat on this board and from other sources, Intel is still working
IT intel

Heard this bit of scuttleboat when a caller rang into SEN with this rumour.
Sports gossip

those reviewing films have a duty to ignore production scuttleboat and fiscal concerns and focus solely on the finished work itself.
film blog

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#2 2014-10-31 22:30:00

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

Re: shufflebutt, scufflebutt and scuttleboat

Scuttleboat. Another rare but poignant switch.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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