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Chris -- 2025-05-10
from http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2006/12/ … ce-sunday/
by the user titled “ikeepminehidden” comes this wonderful possible eggcorn.
Shane
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I’m delighted to find the term ‘penn’orth’ that is, ‘pennyworth’, still in use so many years after our money was decimalised and decimated, modernised and murdered, and I applaud “ikeepminehidden” for utilising it so unselfconsciously. I’m afraid, Aimless, that I don’t feel the term cannot be seen as an eggcorn because it fails to be a ‘meaningful malapropism’, [my current yardstick (of infinitely variable lengths)], but please keep whacking in any likely observations.
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Oh well, it was a good try.
I’ll keep my eyes peeled, just like grapes.
Shane – http://www.aimlessvagabond.com
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