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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I was thinking this morning about the best way to express something, and what came to my mind was “sincere”, rather than “severe” lengths. It occurred to me that this sounded eggcornish.
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Here’s what I found:
”...and we have gone to great and sincere lengths to advocate a pragmatic solution to the question of compensation for the copper companies.”
The Department of State Bulletin, “Department Comments On Policy Toward Chile”, page 498, 1971
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id … =GBS.PA498
”...to avoid (even after going to great and sincere lengths) “the desecration of God’s name”? Has the very concept of kosher meat become a contradiction in terms?”
“If This Is Kosher…”, Foer, PETA video, 2006
http://heebnvegan.blogspot.com/2009/11/ … foers.html
“I believe it is worth noting that they have gone through great and sincere lengths to be compliant with the city requirements in obtaining this type of permit…”
Janice Lopez, letter to the City of Las Vegas Department of Planning, 2017
http://www5.lasvegasnevada.gov/sirepub/ … 930827.PDF
“To that end, Ishka is just an example of extreme capitalism that needs to be fixed but I don’t think the writers in DS9 ever go to any sincere lengths to say capitalism is inherently bad.”
comment, Jammers Reviews, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Family Business”
https://www.jammersreviews.com/st-ds9/s3/family.php
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It seems as if “great lengths” and “sincere efforts” have been merged, affected by the terms “severe lengths” and “great efforts”. An “extreme free from pretense or deceit to which a course of action is taken” makes sense, but eggcorns always seem plausible.
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We also find substitutions of “sincere cases” for “severe cases,” such as
“We’ve got three horses right now that have very sincere cases of thrush that we have to keep them up and in dry stalls” at https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news … camp-able/ in a story about severe weather.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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