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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Touts solicit custom importunately. To “toot” the benefits of a product might arise from someone hearing someone else mispronouncing something they’ve read. It’s more likely that this is a neat eggcorn squash between “touting” and “tooting one’s own horn”.
Everyone is looking for ways to increase their energy. Company’s (even the holistic ones) are now selling “energy” drinks, energy supplements and tooting the benefits of vitamins and a whole lot more!
Lifestyle advice
The tour makes several stops along the way tooting the benefits of living lighter on the earth.
Go green
The AVATAR phenomenon: how good is the “soundtrack” for this highly tooted new film?
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First class.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Just re-reading this. I’d forgotten your “eggcorn squash” phrase, Tocayo (David). I love it! It’s a real phenomenon; blended words and phrases often have an eggcornish vibe to them.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2023-04-01 19:27:03)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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