Discussions about eggcorns and related topics
You are not logged in.
Registrations are currently closed because of a technical problem. Please send email to
The forum administrator reserves the right to request users to plausibly demonstrate that they are real people with an interest in the topic of eggcorns. Otherwise they may be removed with no further justification. Likewise, accounts that have not been used for posting may be removed.
Thanks for your understanding.
Chris -- 2018-04-11
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”!
Offline
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?
Offline
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)
Offline
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.
Offline
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* .
Offline
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.
Offline
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.
Offline
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!
Offline