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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Another eggcorn blog post. This time at OUP
Looking over the list…
I don’t think we have discussed “blasé-faire” for “laissez-faire,” have we? I’m having trouble finding examples that are not intentional puns.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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I have it recorded (Aug 97) as an apparently non-aware occurrence. But I couldn’t prove it wasn’t purposeful. Seems like it might be standard for somebody.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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