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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This is an interesting one: not quite an eggcorn on some reasonable analyses (the meanings are too far apart) but still:
A friend confessed that for years he heard people talking about “the jewel standard†without being sure what they were talking about. He finally convinced himself it meant about the same as “the gold standardâ€, but maybe even higher class.
I found a couple of Internet examples where the authors clearly had something like that in mind:
Kenny’s whipping strings will hypnotize you and set you back on your heels. He sets the jewel standard in Jazz guitar no matter the tonal topic.
@NHLBlackhawks continue to be the jewel standard in virtually everything. You gotta watch this
(We have had pus jewels , which Peter Foster obligingly morphed into pussy jewels for us (be sure to pronounce that [‘pÉ™si]); we have also had a jewel edged sword and jewels < joules but I think the jewel standard is new.)
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I looked for, but didn’t find, “a jewel standardâ€. I was a little surprised. (You all who are better at googling can probably find it somewhere.)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2016-05-11 02:59:13)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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No joy here either. It’s gotta be out there. Jewel standard did remind me of this, from Peter, in response to Craig Clarke’s duke box:
I wondered whether ‘dukes’ meaning ‘hands’ might have something to do with it, but only briefly. It might be a bit of hyper-correction I suppose, as the ‘j’ sound seems easier to commence words with than the ‘d’ – juress (duress) has 29 ghits, juality 637 and jubious 1,970 for example. (One of the first songs I ever heard on a juke box went, “Dook of Earl, dook dook, Dook of Earl…†and that made no sense either. Still doesn’t.)
See also, The Asbury Dukes on the jute box.
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David Bird wrote:
No joy here either. It’s gotta be out there. Jewel standard did remind me of this, from Peter, in response to Craig Clarke’s duke box:
I wondered whether ‘dukes’ meaning ‘hands’ might have something to do with it, but only briefly. It might be a bit of hyper-correction I suppose, as the ‘j’ sound seems easier to commence words with than the ‘d’ – juress (duress) has 29 ghits, juality 637 and jubious 1,970 for example. (One of the first songs I ever heard on a juke box went, “Dook of Earl, dook dook, Dook of Earl…†and that made no sense either. Still doesn’t.)
The j substitution for d is, I think, a Brit-ism. I encountered something similar from an acquaintance from England. She was talking about something called “chooda” and I couldn’t figure out what she was referring to. I finally asked her to spell “chooda” and she said “T, u, d, o, r.” So, in this case, ch for t. Very British.
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