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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Reading up on sexual selection I came across this:
The guinea fowl with the shape of corn on its body and pheasant with the shape of the pine corn on its body
http://www.thegreatdebate.org.uk/ESexualSeln.html
Might it be a perseveration error? A quick shufti showed that, under our noses, pine corns gets more than 200 hits. DT has already noted the existence of the eggcone pine, Pinus oocarpa.
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Wow. SNOT award for sure.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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kem wrote:
Wow. SNOT award for sure.
Pardon my ignorance, but what’s a SNOT award?
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It was right there under your nose all the time. (There probably was a clever title to justify the acronym, but I don’t remember what it may have been.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Mentioned in the last post here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=3722 Seen but NOT observed. Under our noses.
Some of us have made nominations for this award each year.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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