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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The pronunciation of heinous, usually teamed up with crime, is not entirely clear from its appearance. Dictionaries disagree, rhyming it with either greyness or Venus. (Come on – what would you have chosen?)
I’ve heard it pronounced “high-eenis” and “high-eenious” which is quite hyena-like. In addition, the poor hyena has an undeserved reputation as a sneaky cowardly scavenger – a natural criminal in our anthropomorphic version of the animal world.I am asking you ladies and gentleman of the jury to convict this murderer for the hyenas’ crime he has committed; …
... case and bring the unknown perpetrator to justice for this hyenas crime. What follows is a trail of hypnotic detective work, fraught with danger, …
With the US laws and certain judges is that they might be out of jail for good behavior even though they did a hyenas crime of killing a 3 year old child
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I love it. Best new eggcorn in living memory. Today’s counts show the following number of genuine, verified google hits: 5 hyena’s crime, 54 hyenas crime, 22 hyenous crime, 5 hyenas act, and 9 hyena’s act.
Hyenous pronunciation from the Economic Hit Man.
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We’ve been close
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=6064
Not really up there with “hyenas crime”, which is excellent.
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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