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Chris -- 2018-04-11
As in “there are a lot of rules you need to ad ear to”.
“The zoo is also a no smoking area, which personally I think is fantastic for both the kids and the animals! Some people may find this hard to ad ear to though.” http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserRevi … gland.html
I think the semantic aspect here is that if you add your ear to something, you listen to it or pay attention to it. So when you add ear to the rules, you’re paying attention to them. I’ve no idea why it should be “ad ear” and not “add ear”. But I get two googles for “ad ear” and none for “add ear”. I found it in an offline document.
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I like it, domib, and it looks pretty eggcornish to me – I tried running the letters together and adding ‘to’ to find:
‘adear to’ – 372 ghits
‘addear to’ – 81 ghits
but by adding an ‘h’ which certainly reinforces the idea of listening closely, and brings us a little closer to the original, we find;
adhear to – 24,200 ghits
addhear to – 61 ghits
Separating the latter into ‘add hear’ gives us 34 ghits –
Failure to add hear to this will have you placed on a permanent ban, no exceptions and no second chances. Ranks and Smilies …
www.majesticscificentral.com/forum/faq.php – 28k – Cached
I’ll add hear to my presets…. I’ve heard that XM doesn’t change their channel line up as often as Siriius – hopefully some acoustic/folk/singer-songwriter …
www.xmfan.com/viewtopic.php?p=508262 – 70k – Cached
A nice find!
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