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#1 2015-09-27 12:21:48

Dangat
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Registered: 2015-09-26
Posts: 12

caraft instead of carafe

It turns out that one of my cousins is a veritable fount of information when it comes to eggcorns!

I was looking through some emails she’d sent me over the last few months, and she refers to “carafts” of wine! When I spoke with her on the phone in an eggcorn-style ambush, she did indeed say “caraft”!

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#2 2015-09-27 14:43:29

Dixon Wragg
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From: Cotati, California
Registered: 2008-07-04
Posts: 1375

Re: caraft instead of carafe

Hmmmm. The pronunciation similarity is there, but I’m not sure we can come up with a plausible meaning, which would be necessary for eggcornicity. It seems like just a mispronunciation to me. Can anyone propose an eggcornish meaning for caraft?

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#3 2015-09-30 16:01:16

Eoin
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Registered: 2006-04-11
Posts: 37

Re: caraft instead of carafe

If you can drink a tanker of ale, why not a caraft of wine?

Regarding tankers of ale, schooners of beer may figure into the connection.

Last edited by Eoin (2015-09-30 16:18:21)

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#4 2015-10-01 14:28:30

burred
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From: Montreal
Registered: 2008-03-17
Posts: 1112

Re: caraft instead of carafe

After a quick discussion we were well on our way to getting a pepperoni pizza with two house salads and a craft of wine.
http://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=beer_an … gton%2C+KY

Schooners of beer. Nice one.

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#5 2015-10-01 19:50:24

DavidTuggy
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From: Mexico
Registered: 2007-10-11
Posts: 2713
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Re: caraft instead of carafe

I suppose it’s obvious, but I’m missing the acorn on the schooners. I guess I don’t drink enough beer …


*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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#6 2015-10-02 01:55:08

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

Re: caraft instead of carafe

The phrase “a giraffe of wine” brings up 4 pages of ghits but they are virtually all anecdotal or FOAF stories. I suppose that if you can have long neck bottles….....

David, a schooner of wine isn’t an eggcorn, it’s a thing. What specific size of beer glass a schooner is I couldn’t say*. Probably not enough.

*But Google knows

http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/129148/20 … index.html

Last edited by JuanTwoThree (2015-10-02 01:58:55)


On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.

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#7 2015-10-05 17:34:35

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

Re: caraft instead of carafe

Oops, I shoulda made clear that I liked the funny suggestion of a semantic motivation for a tanker of ale from a schooner of beer , not that I thought the latter was an eggcorn. But the notion of ‘a schooner of beer’ is indeed new to me (mmmm…beer). Schooner in both its senses, of glasses and sailboats, is one of those unmoored words for which there is no generally accepted etymology.

A giraffe of beer has been quaffed previously, back in ‘06: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … p?id=1150.

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#8 2015-10-21 18:39:09

Dangat
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Registered: 2015-09-26
Posts: 12

Re: caraft instead of carafe

burred wrote:

bq. After a quick discussion we were well on our way to getting a pepperoni pizza with two house salads and a craft of wine.
http://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=beer_an … gton%2C+KY

Schooners of beer. Nice one.

Love it!

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