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Chris -- 2025-05-10
There are a lot of corvids about. I don’t mean ravens and jackdaws so much as misspellings of covid. I guess it’s a bit eggcornish if people have seen corvid a few times before, but I doubt if anybody thinks that’s where covid comes from.
Anyway, I hope all the eggcorners are well, along with their kith and kin.
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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Admirable sentiments, J23, which I heartily endorse. And here’s a few more covid variants too.
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Anyone else notice that COVID rhymes with “David?” Just sayin’.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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I didn’t notice, no. Kind of like Mr Smoketoomuch. No coincidence, really. David is from the Hebrew for belovid, i.e. spreads love like a viral disease.
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