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#1 2016-02-02 09:05:15

Dixon Wragg
Eggcornista
From: Cotati, California
Registered: 2008-07-04
Posts: 1375

"savor tooth" for "saber tooth"

When I was little, I and my friends used the term savortooth. It was just a mispronunciation, not an eggcorn, as we didn’t know the word savor. But recently it occurred to me that savortooth might be an eggcorn for some adults, who would be expected to know the word savor and to understand that it has something to do with food being “toothsome”.

What extinct animal do you find fascinating? Savor tooth tiger
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Savor tooth tiger. Because it was a bad ass. And i like cats.
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Homo Sapiens started to migrate around 8,000 B.C.E from North America to South America and there was a huge extient of animals from mammoth to savor tooth tigers.
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Miniature: 2-1/2”T Savor Tooth Tiger
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Cage of eden the wild savor tooth tiger
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savor tooth tiger
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#2 2016-02-02 11:25:57

burred
Eggcornista
From: Montreal
Registered: 2008-03-17
Posts: 1112

Re: "savor tooth" for "saber tooth"

kid’s writing
we heard a loud ggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrr. “W…w…what was that” seth asked. I have no idea I replied. Just then out of the bushes came a tiger like animal then we looked at it’s teeth it was a savior tooth tiger. We began to run for our lives screaming like we where wild animals just then a dragon swooped out of the sky and snached the savor tooth tiger by the neck. It came back and spoke to use that triggerd the screaming again then it said” calm down are you going to get on my back or what I know were the portal is”.Seth and me looked at eachother and said “sweet”.

There’s a tasty simbling over at linguistlist, where Laurence Horn noticed light saver. Still no save-a-tooth tiger though.

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How do u get a lightsavior for character creation?
I looked for a light savior for a new character, but I didn’t find vader’s or yoda’s. How do u get one.

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#3 2016-02-06 14:26:48

Amantis
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Registered: 2016-02-06
Posts: 2

Re: "savor tooth" for "saber tooth"

Could this because a lot of these people grew up during the advent of both “Life Savers” candy and “Light Sabers” from Starwars?

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#4 2016-02-06 19:11:55

burred
Eggcornista
From: Montreal
Registered: 2008-03-17
Posts: 1112

Re: "savor tooth" for "saber tooth"

I like it.

reddit
OP: death star is giant light saver
light savers must be constructed with the force
R: Asshole doesn’t even know it’s Life saver.

Kirk vs Vader
Darth Vader would smoke Kirby! His life saver would cut off all of kirk’s limbs.

fanchat
OP:Do you think that Voldemort and Darth Vader would be friends if they met? Or would they compete
R: They would HATE each other.
WAND VS LIFE SAVER!!!!!!XD

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