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#1 2016-02-10 15:19:09

fishmatt
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Registered: 2010-10-09
Posts: 6

peat gravel for pea gravel

From the 2006/2009 post on “wheelbarrel”:

JonW719 wrote:

I just came across this one today on Craigslist (see? It really is a great source for reshapings):

Free peat gravel. Used for swing set play area. Size covering estimate 7-8 square yards by 6 inches deep. Bring wheel barrel.

I avoided bumping this aged post, but didn’t see anyone notice “peat gravel” in the thread. Could that be eggcorny as peat is another common landscaping word, or is this a case where nobody actually thinks the gravel is made of or meant to associate with peat?

Here’s a do-it-yourself blog that makes the substitution twice and doesn’t seem to explain it away (or use peat in the construction): http://designingdomesticity.blogspot.co … ow-to.html

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#2 2016-02-11 09:57:18

kem
Eggcornista
From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2851

Re: peat gravel for pea gravel

I can see a few substitutions of “peat gravel” for “pea gravel.” There don’t seem to be very many on the web.

At this low frequency, it may be a simple misspelling. But it could also be a DNA replacement, where users have a category in their mental lexicon of “bulk items I buy at a nursery/landscaping store” and have melded two of the items.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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#3 2016-02-11 10:50:17

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1690

Re: peat gravel for pea gravel

So many people think it’s pee gravel, especially if their dog uses it to store mail, that it might be some kind of brand name.

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