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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A friend heard this in conversation about dogs.
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I like this one a lot. It’s difficult to track down “pet agree” as an eggcorn on the internet because it seems to be the name of an actual product. Nevertheless, I picked up quite a few (perhaps 100 – 200) eggcorns with the construction “a pet agree” ...
Want to Buy a Puppy; DogsI would do a pet agree puppy or cat but never anythiing more exotic myself. I feel so bad for pets like that i think they should be left alone. ...
board.pets-buynow.com/Dogs/Want_to_Buy_a_Puppy – 17k – Cached – Similar pages
Animal Rescue League of Southern Rhode IslandWe require that all people applying for a pet agree to have the animal spayed or neutered and have established a refund policy to attain this. ...
www.animalrescueleague.petfinder.org/ – 17k – Cached – Similar pages
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Over the years, I’ve come to the conclusion that dog breeders, in general, don’t have a huge command of English, or conventions thereof (they’re a whole ‘nother breed)... but that’s just my observation.
I never thought to Google that puppy! Thanks for Sharon.
Last edited by maddog_frenzy (2007-02-12 11:04:18)
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I found a couple of hits for “pet agreed” that were genuine, though by far most were either pun-named businesses, or references to medical tests.
(Is there a name for when you give your business a punnish name, like “Buy the Book” or “Just Desserts?”)
Last edited by Craig C Clarke (2007-02-14 10:40:01)
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A little searching shows that “petagree” and “petagreed” for “pedigree” and “pedigreed” are well-established.
Even more firmly established in English is the spelling “pedegree” for “pedigree.” Both the Google Ngram database and GloWbE corpus indicate that the misspelling occurs at a frequency of 0.1%. The reason, I’m guessing, is the pull of the word “degree.”
Then, of course, there is “petdegree” and “pet degree” for “pedigree.” Examples on the web are almost always puns, but the odd one may be a real eggcorn.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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