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Chris -- 2025-05-10
This article about smartphones (http://www.imore.com/pixel-iphone-7-and-grading-curve) seems to have fallen into a very eggcorn-like confusion:
“After years in the Google desert, we’re finally being thrown a cracker, and so we’re so hungry for it, we’re telling ourselves it tastes like a Ritz. Meanwhile, we’re taking Apple’s year-over-year crackers for granted, and looking at them like they’re just regular old saltines.”
The author appears to have conflated Ritz crackers with the Ritz(-Carlton) hotel and used the former as a byword for luxury!
This is, perhaps, a homonym eggcorn?
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Silent Cal wrote:
The author appears to have conflated Ritz crackers with the Ritz(-Carlton) hotel and used the former as a byword for luxury
This is, perhaps, a homonym eggcorn?
According to this Q&A site, Ritz crackers were named after the Ritz hotels:
Because it looked shinier and richer, they named it the “Ritz.†Like everything else dubbed “ritzy,†the name is taken from the opulent Ritz hotels.
I think the quote you cite is just a guy using the term “Ritz” in a way that’s consistent with the intended meaning.
And welcome to the Eggcorn Forum, Silent Cal!
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