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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Being ‘rated’ doesn’t sound too dignified an experience but is surely preferable to being raided. Perhaps the N American substitution of d for t (for example, my favourite, or more accurately, the only one I can think of at the moment, ‘taken for granite’) is what lies behind this modest little eggcorn.
We still paid 100% for our dinner & happily tipped our waiter 20%, but honestly after being beraided by staff the dinner should have been paid for.
For this student’s efforts, he was beraided and hit; his paper went from the equivalent of a B to an F. Is this fair? Is this right? I don’t think so.
I’ve tried to be nice, but you just keep beraiding me about my ad and how it’s not up to your standards. Do you realize how crazy you sound?
To be beraided by a service person when they have been drinking is unacceptable.
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Good one. You folks in the Auld Countrie still think “water” doesn’t have a /d/ in it, I hear.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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