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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I’ve seen this one many times printed in the classified ads of the local paper. Chest of drawers = chester drawers
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planier wrote:
I’ve seen this one many times printed in the classified ads of the local paper. Chest of drawers = chester drawers
Good one, planier! If we assume “Chester” is a proper name (I take the liberty to capitalize it here), this would fall into the category of eggcorn that’s come to be known by eggcornistas as a “Lehmann” (after someone’s mistaking “layman’s terms” for “Lehmann’s terms”). The assumption would be that at least some of the perps would be thinking that “Chester drawers” are an item of furniture designed by someone named Chester.
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It is good. But it has been spotted many times:
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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