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Chris -- 2018-04-11
i found this in a magazine, i think they meant to say ‘camaraderie’. i think this is a good eggcorn because it does make more sense. my american heritage dictionary says comrade comes from the same root as camaraderie, but they parted ways a long time ago.
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Amyd, welcome! and you’re right, there is much confusion around ‘camaradarie’, a term often employed by those for whom ‘comradeship’ is insufficiently sophisticated perhaps, or smacks too much of Soviet Russia. In the last month I’ve heard two Londoners pronounce it as something like ‘commaroderie’ (39 googlehits), ‘commerodery’ (192 ghits) or ‘commaradery’ (738 ghits). I can’t really see it as an eggcorn I’m afraid, because it doesn’t supply the essential alternative image required for eggcornish status.
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