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#1 2007-01-13 10:39:57

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1222

'accentric' for 'eccentric'

eccentric – 16,300,000 ghits
accentric – 642 ghits

It’s only one little vowel change – I wonder if it sounds more ‘a’ than ‘e’ in many dialects? Certainly it sounds like South African English but most of the citations I’ve found so far are UK-based. I’m assuming the eggcorn, if it is one, centres upon the word ‘accent’ which being a regional or local variant of dominant speech may render the speaker peculiar, different, unusual or even eccentric to the ears of the dominant speech community…

good work the Theosophists might have done, therere certain rather cranky and accentric. aspects of the Theosophical movement so maybe for a lot of people …
www.freebuddhistaudio.com/.../download/ … _to_Wisdom

Comment: Everything you’d want from an accentric Englishman and more! This light-hearted series of illustrated letters from the ‘lost uncle’ is a joy to …
www.writewords.org.uk/store/detpage.asp … Mod=boo… – 16k – Supplemental Result – Cached

A pair of children befriend an accentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a …
www.boyacts.com/cgi-bin/movie.cgi?ref=2009 – 21k – Supplemental Result – Cached

Like many people he thought of Blake as an accentric and a mystical, otherworldly character. At this reading he had sudden insight into the heart of the man …
atschool.eduweb.co.uk/stevemoss/bron/rita.htm – 5k – Cached

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