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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I heard a delightful eggcorn on the NPR radio show, Radiolab, from WNYC, today. The spot was Lu vs. Soo, an equally delightful account of a cross-country bike trip taken by producer Lulu Miller and her friend Soo. To introduce Soo, from 2:32 to 3:39 on the Radiolab clip, Lu describes her friend’s penchant for “language mashup.” She uses crazzled for crazy and frazzled, and grubbish for junk food. But then the true gem is revealed.
Soo is not alone in trapezing around the countryside. The alternate imagery in these is great.
Spent an amazing weekend trapezing around the outer boroughs for Serious Eats, exploring some of the most impressive breweries out there. Cheers, NYC!
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After spending the afternoon trapezing around the desert in pickup trucks and nearly getting thrown off a camel’s back
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I spent 5 days trapezing around the South and grave yard hopping.
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These two friends had a wonderful time trapezing around the UK and France, tearing up hearts of men in Europe.
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an aging socialite from South America who spends most of her time trapezing around the outer circles of the rich and famous, going from parties to parties
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There are more than 30 genuine hits today using trapezing for traipsing. Might some have heard traipse and thought it was a mispronunciation? Or is trapezing a word you read and understood but mispronounced (and misunderstood) in your mind.
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It occurred to me that some of these hits might conceivably be phonetic spelling, as in trape—zing. Evidence that at least some (if not most) of the hits are referring to the flying trapeze comes from the second person account of Lu above, as well as the several hits that can be found for trapeze around. Though even trapeze might be pronounced as traipse, come to think of it. Or it might be a cupertino. Don’t use this eggcorn without a net.
A few friends and I trapeze around the city like the bright, young tourists we are.
http://www.anarrowabroad.com/?p=1678
If he wants to trapeze around the woods of Wonderland for a little while longer, who’s to stop him?
http://greyneurosis.tumblr.com/page/4
“I need a one way ticket to Bellum.” Luna answers cheerfully, glad that she doesn’t have to trapeze around the town.
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Hence, as an outlet in the ever-so-funny store Roti Kapda Makaan in Lower Parel looked like an invite for a quick bite for several corporate-wallahs who trapeze around the locality.
http://www.mid-day.com/articles/good-fo … a/15047004
would I really want to trapeze around the neighborhood in my pjs??
https://www.pinterest.com/dizzylolly/pyjama-party/
Just because your underwear is colorful, transparent or tightly fitted does not give you cause to trapeze around the pool or beach in them.
http://anorexicescapades.com/tag/bathing-suits/
you’ll enjoy watching Neptune and pals trapeze around the world in search of MacGuffins.
http://diehardgamefan.com/2011/02/14/re … -sony-ps3/
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“Trapesing” is pretty common: about 11,000 hits in Google. I used to think it was spelt that way, and indeed some dictionaries list “trapes” as an alternative (albeit old) spelling of “traipse”, which is an odd-looking word really (I can’t think of any other words ending in -aipse, but lots of words end in -apes). So I think autocorrect is changing a lot of instances of trapes/trapesing to trapeze/trapezing.
I never thought I’d hear “trapezing” though, even in a second-hand account. That really is a gem.
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Interesting change of spelling. It’s possible that Soo or her father saw trapesing and read it as trapezing. The spell-check angle is given credence by the success of the roundtripper. Traipse for trapeze is not uncommon, by the evidence of the dozen and a half artists of the “flying traipse” out there.
There’s a funny quirk in Google. The estimated number of hits provided by its secret proprietary blend of herbs and spices algorithm is wildly off, to the point of uselessness. If you pursue trapesing out to the last page, it provides between 400 and 500 raw hits today. If one painstakingly and pointlessly goes through and eliminates the repeats and other debris, then you achieve what we’ve been calling “genuine ghits.”
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Thanks burred for explaining how Google hits works (or doesn’t). I had noticed that before (supposedly many hundreds of results but they end on the second page) but didn’t know it happened every time. I’ve also gone away from the ridiculous 10 results per page.
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