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Chris -- 2018-04-11
(Brought to mind by WatertownScholar’s admirable airfoot )
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The bear / bare mixup is an old one on this forum (see the forms beginning with bear here ), but these particular forms seem to have been overlooked:
I’m so relaxed! Highlight of the day, walking bearfoot on white sand in jamaica ✌ peace.
Bring with you shous to walk in the water so you can have a full view of the pools, the waterfalls etc without the problem of walking bearfoot on rocks.
cannot come and sit with you even though my own son is running around bear naked with his mother chasing after him trying to get him dressed
Samoa is stress free, don’t be surprised if you see a young little boys running around bear naked. Samoa is a very heartwarming place, great for fun and …
There are plenty of tongue-in-cheek usages, but many seem likely to be innocent and sincere. They may be innocent and sincere misspellings, of course, but the eggcornish rationale is plausible enough: Do bears wear clothes (or shoes) in the woods?
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A SNOT candidate, I would suppose.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2015-10-28 17:00:45)
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