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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I heard someone talking today about a “massectomy” that a friend had. It should be, of course, “mastectomy,” from μασθός, the Greek word for “breast.” “Massectomy,” though, is an appropriate replacement — mastectomies are usually done to remove cancerous masses.
No need to filter examples here. Almost every hit on a Google search for “massectomy” is a result of this confusion. There appear to be thousands of web pages with this eggcorn.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Not quite a return tripper, and one you’ve already noted elsewhere (still can’t do the clickie blue thing) in a slightly different form.
Does anyone out there have any experience with vastectomy reversal? I am wondering in the ballpark what is runs, and also what the chances are of it working, ...
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