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Chris -- 2025-05-10
This seems to be a common mistake, both in spelling and pronunciation of the word. It seems to be one of those things where someone has taken something unfamiliar, and with knowledge of what it is, rearranged the sound and spelling slightly to try to reform it into a (somewhat unusual) derivation of a well known word. People also tend not to be aware of the non-risqué meaning of the word, but that doesn’t really fall under the purview of this discussion.
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