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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This has the look of one of those low hanging fruit we’ve talked about, or even a candidate for a SNOT award. As long as it isn’t a low hanging snot, I don’t mind.
It may work like moral/amoral with the a- prefix somehow rendering an adverb into something more noun-like. Most examples seem to be of African origin.
... 12 toes, plus the child’s daddy had 12 fingers and 12 toes, but the doctors cut them off when he was little saying it was an anormally and nothing special.
The answer to this may help us in knowing if what happened was an anormally or has been consistent with previous census results.
A 5 star rating for this hotel at this time is an anormally, but it really does have a lot of potential which can be achieved with refurbishment and …
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Winner. Also present as an abnomaly.
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We had the cognate anormalous earlier: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=4342
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Pat wrote:
Utterly delightful. The hybrid “abnormalous†gets 90 ughits, with scientists again leading the charge.
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