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Chris -- 2018-04-11
When I was a kid and obviously much more nonchalant than today (sic) I’m sure I heard this word with an s sound in the middle! Having just been forced to look it up there is aparently no s in the first part of the word but did anyone else hear adults use the word as “lacksadaisical”? (Also I used to imagine it was spelt; “laxadaisical” because I was so convinced of the “cks” sound in the middle!) :-) Mark
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Hi MarkO
This is one of those perennial favorites—it’s been suggested fairly often. The thread with the most info is probably this one: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … p?pid=1949
But more recently there was this:
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Thanks very much Pat – sorry for not having noticed you guys had discussed this before! Am a newbie and should’ve done a proper search before posting! Interesting to see though that the word has been used in different ways in different parts of the English speaking world. My heritage for it involved women from London (cockney and central London accents) who would have started using the word in the “laxa….” form in the early – mid 20th Century. :-) Mark
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