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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Go Fuigre!
(I suspect this is a New Jersey thing)
Last edited by FifiSteinweg (2007-01-05 18:18:03)
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A classic example of the “cross-language eggcorn”—it’s in the Database here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/194/chaise-lounge/
The reshaping is so much more common in American speech than the original that it’s probably not really an “eggcorn” anymore, but, hey, we like it….
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