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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Captured in the wild – that is, at my knitting group – during a discussion of the high price of copper cookware.
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Looks more like a pun than an eggcorn to me.
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@DixonWragg – You’re right, it was more of a pun, but an unintended or subconscious one, I am sure.
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greygarious wrote:
@DixonWragg – You’re right, it was more of a pun, but an unintended or subconscious one, I am sure.
If it was unintended or subconscious, it wasn’t a pun—at least not in the sense we use the term here. If it wasn’t a conscious pun, that does open up the possibility of eggcornicity, though the pronunciation may not be similar enough.
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I’m not sure how, if it’s an eggcorn, the meanings map onto each other.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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