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Chris -- 2018-04-11
My sister writes:
My friend Stephanie posted on FB a photo of a gorgeous bunch of flowers her hubby gave her. Her friend Susan Goraj commented: (That is) such a beautiful beauquet!!!
There are other examples out there, such as
A few photos of lovely bride… – Flowers by Marie Brogan | Facebook […] Beautiful beauquet love the colours. 1 mo Report. Flowers by Marie Brogan,
I like the clear sound and the visual being so nice and clear.beautiful beauquet of colors on the screening is all so preety.
Sincerely understanding the word as meaning “beautiful quet (whatever a quet is, presumably a bunch of flowers)” would be pretty much eggcornish, but it is hard to separate online examples into real eggcorns (as the quoted ones seem to be) and jokes, actual last names, and such-like. This of course goes in the subcollection of eggcorns involving a foreign language, especially one the perp does not know well.
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Also suggestive: a wedding florist called Merci Bouquet, and a cosmetic powder called Merci Beauquet. (Puns, of course, but still.)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2022-11-13 06:10:37)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Originally a clump of trees, apparently. A beaut, que? A fragrant quet from one’s beau? It would work well for rainbeau and placebeau too, but hobeau is a no-no and I wish I hadn’t thought of bubeau at all.
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