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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I couldn’t believe my hearing or what i was seeing on TV abut MR Bill Cosby, because I’ve watched him and his Cosby family for years now…i hope and pray that this is a big Ma steak…
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I couldn’t find any other examples of this odd substitution online—but that’s at least partly because of a web-searching problem I’ve been running into: Typing, e.g., “Ma steak” into a search engine doesn’t just yield examples of “Ma steak”; it yields millions of examples of “mistake”, too many to search through for the odd “Ma steak” in a haystack. Hellllllp!!! Does anyone here know of a search engine that will just search for what I ask it for, not trying to second-guess what I may have meant?
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Google still works in the familiar way for me. You do use the search-ical tools available to isolate search terms, it goes without asking. There were no interesting hits for Ma steak, unless Big Ma Ma Steak in Taichung gets you salivating. It might be some kind of silicism. There are four other quirks in these two sentences, none of which would be caught by spellcheck.
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Quotation marks (“ma steak”) in the Google search engine seem to limit the search to the exact expression.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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