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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I was just reading a Lost forum (a real breeding ground for eggcorns), and ran across this:
Contrare mofrare
It took me a full minute of reading it to figure out what it was meant to be. Subsequent investigation has revealed numerous variations:
Oh contrare mofrare
O’ contre mofrare
Oh contrare mofrare my friend
Au’ contrare mofrare
Contrare-Mofrare!
Oh contraire mofrare (getting close!)
No contrere mofrare
Aw contrair mofrare
I can only guess that it entered the vernacular by way of Bart Simpson, with a Francophobic audience blissfully unaware of what he was actually saying. In fact, the last variation on the theme (with “aw” above) even cited Bart Simpson.
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