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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The term “abomination” is not very familiar to most. The fact that it can be heard to include the term “bomb”, or even “A-bomb”, understandably has led some to assume that the meaning involves bombs. It’s not just that bombs are, in some sense, abominable (especially if you’re on the receiving end); there’s also another connection: in the 1960s, the classic comics antihero the Hulk was turned into a powerful monster through exposure to a gamma ray bomb, and one of his most “popular” foes, the Abomination, received his powers, and his ugliness, similarly. Hence many of the examples of this substitution refer to this character. I think this qualifies as an eggcorn.
Doomsday vs thing , collususs, red hulk, abombination ,hulk
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I EDITED AN ABOMBINATION
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Blokhedz Marvel Abombination
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Defeat Abombination by clicking on him and his pesky minions.
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Even spelled correctly, “abomination” could be a hidden eggcorn, silently importing “A-bomb.” It’s not a connection that ever occurred to me. Consciously, I mean (We are, alas, not always the best judge of what our subconscious minds are doing). But I could see it playing a role.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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