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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Dillusions of Grandeur
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...the major problem I had was that the hotel carries itself with a 5 star mentality but simply suffers from dillusions of grandeur.
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Dillusions of Grandeur – Taco Pizza….
...When the hunger pangs hit, I lose judgement and reason and get dillusional.
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The obvious question: Is dillusions (or dillusional, etc.) just a misspelling, or is it an eggcorn, probably caused by an assumed relationship with the word illusions? Here are a couple of examples in which the delusion/illusion confusion is shown:
Bunny Bixler: (d)Illusions of Grandeur
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Q: Do you Ever Suffer from Illusions of Grandeur?
A: its DILLUSIONS of grandeur. makes more sense if you think about it
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“Delusion” and “illusion” are close etymological cousins, probably confused with some regularity.
A quick scan at the sources behind the Google Ngram of “illusions of grandeur” and “delusions of grandeur” suggests that “illusions of grandeur is the older idiom and that “delusions of grandeur” got started at the end of the nineteenth century as diagnostic term in psychology/psychoanalysis.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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