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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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Brad Macdonald
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Hello Brad, and welcome. I’m guessing that ‘creamate’ usage is North American and that some AmEnglish dialects would stress the first syllable: cream ate, rather than the version I’m familiar with the stress on the second syllable: cr’mate. The word ‘cream’ has more than mere milky meanings including, I think, inflicting physical damage (?) but I’m having difficulty in imagining what imagery your variant might possess for the eggcorner. Could it be religious – only the good die young -the cream rises to the surface, that sort of thing?
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No Stooges fans here?
“I woulda cremated him, but we ran outta cream.”
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Her body was creamed and the ashes scattered in the garden
Memorial
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