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#1 2014-11-30 20:50:08

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1690

"Treacle treat!" for "Trick or treat!"

Arnold Zwicky’s blog has a new entry, suggested by Karen Schaffer, for trickle treating as an eggcorn for Hallowe’en trick or treating. That might make sense to a kid who thinks that the slow accumulation of loot comes in as a trickle. Here’s another variation that makes a different kind of sense:

But really could do with some advice/tips on the following: Party games – we are not going treacle treating and the party is from 5-7pm so will be dark.
Mum from Essex

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#2 2014-11-30 22:14:05

DavidTuggy
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From: Mexico
Registered: 2007-10-11
Posts: 2714
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Re: "Treacle treat!" for "Trick or treat!"

I love it!

But how many of us still experience treacle directly and knowingly (by that name). If we don’t know the word, it’s a less compelling eggcorn. In other words, this probably makes more sense to word nerds like you’n’me, bro, than most potential perps.


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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#3 2014-12-01 08:58:20

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1690

Re: "Treacle treat!" for "Trick or treat!"

Haha, it’s true that I don’t know from treacle. Apparently it’s just molasses, when it’s not overly sweet narrative. (But how can I have any molasses when I haven’t had any lasses yet). I was performing an eggcorn projection, into the mind of an unsuspecting English perp. A fraught business, admittedly. They seem to be keeping treacle flowing over there, however, if recent pop songs are anything to go by.

Edit: By that last bit I mean that references to treacle are present in recent songs (and in Harry Potter), not that there is anything overly sentimental about British pop.

Last edited by David Bird (2014-12-01 16:35:23)

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#4 2020-09-30 12:57:05

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

Re: "Treacle treat!" for "Trick or treat!"


On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.

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