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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I heard someone say ‘philantrophy’ the other day – an easy slip of the lip – but the trophy and its implications only emerge in its written form and even here its appearance could be purely accidental given the frequency with which our fingers go awry.
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Interesting. In the case you heard, I suppose it was pronounced [fillANtrafee] rather than [fill-an-TROE-fee]. So it would seem that the issue is (re)producing the sound rather than perceiving the word trophy in the pronunciation.
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Of course once you write the switched pronunciation down on paper the word jumps out at you. It could also be produced by switching keystrokes, and conceivably, the spoken version you heard came from such a misspelling without perception of trophy . But perhaps those who read and write the word more often than they ever hear or say it then take it in the eggcornish way you suggest. But I would expect them to pronounce it [fill-an-TROE-fee] if they ever came to saying it out loud.
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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