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Chris -- 2025-05-10
My teenaged nephew used to say “in all the words” rather than “in other words.” In fact, whenever he would say it i thought it was merely a cute speech impediment, but then he typed it to me in a chat post during a discussion. I thought it was unique to him until I heard it spoken by someone while at the mall, this time by an adult.
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Very nice! It makes sense that in all the words would mean something like “explaining fully the topic at hand”, which fits with the periphrasis introducing acorn, in other words .
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Relatedly, we have had another words and anotherwards , and in otherwards, another news, in another words ; otherwards, this has been a fertile, not to say a prolific, acorn.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Welcome to the Eggcorn Forum, TruthyTruth!
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