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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I heard a lawyer today refer to a “monumentous mistake”—a wonderful portmanteau word, if not precisely an eggcorn. Googling turns up 35,400 hits, which ain’t bad. Here’s a quote I like, from a piece of would-be poetical prose:
when it happens to an elephant, you think that is tremendous, you think that’s it, kneel down and rub your forehead, that is a monumentous sad death, something monumentous has passed from the earth, or in zoos when an elephant sways you think, something monumentous has gone psychotic, or something monumentous has broken through its enclosure and is stamping the crowds to death in the circus arena . . .
I feel a monumentous headache coming on. . .
David
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