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#1 2007-03-01 12:57:09

kirinqueen
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out of space < outer space

This seems like it must be from an “r-dropping” dialect. Seen <a href=”http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070227/NEWS01/70227062/1075”>here</a>.

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#2 2007-03-04 15:43:49

jorkel
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Re: out of space < outer space

Nice find. The Eggcorn Database has an eggcorn for the construction in the opposite direction (“outer body experience” instead of “out of body experience.”) I think you could consider “out of space” a distinct eggcorn.

(One other thing… don’t miss my comment at the bottom about the hyphenated version of this eggcorn).

For convenience, I used the construction “in out of space” to locate a few examples because “out of space” alone might have other legitimate usages.

Examples:

A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson …
If you’ve been traveling in out of space for a couple of years – welcome home. If you’ve just climbed from underneath a rock or crawled out of a cave, ...
www.curledup.com/deadlyga.htm
http://www.curledup.com/deadlyga.htm

falsities in current theories
D. As to ZPE, one of its now additional claimed sources is: virtual pairs of particles formed in (out of) space etc. ad nauseam. From nothing comes nothing. ...
nptbs.airweb.net/falsities5.doc
http://nptbs.airweb.net/falsities5.doc

Shattering Elevations: An Odyssey Beyond the Universe – Google Book…
At the same time in out of space a starship saw an incredible site of a dying star about to collapse. In the the midst of chaos, from the outskirts of the …
books.google.com/books?id=TrlDq1oMXdQC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=%22in+out+of+spa…
http://books.google.com/books?id=TrlDq1 … gjRCMyb23k

Miss Snark, the literary agent: #36 Crapometer
(this is the critical point of the narrative and you drop it in out of space and then don’t explain it) Calum shoots Heather as she walks to the chapel to …
misssnark.blogspot.com/2005/12/36-crapometer.html
http://misssnark.blogspot.com/2005/12/3 … meter.html

Aum Meditation (End sleep)
Within the darkness it was like I was in out-of-space and I could see the stars in the far distance. It felt strange, like my inside ‘spirit’ shrugs was …
www.bwgen.com/presets/desc22.htm
http://www.bwgen.com/presets/desc22.htm

I find this last usage particularly interesting because it includes hyphens!!! The use of hyphens is usually a sign of higher intelligence: linguistic sensitivity. Am I missing something here? Would someone who is intelligent enough to sense the need for hyphens (rightly or wrongly) not be familiar with the term “outer space”?

(By the way, the hyphenated version “out-of-space” has been used correctly in other contexts such as a shortage of computer memory that would be required to save a file).

Last edited by jorkel (2007-03-04 15:46:09)

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