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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This one is a fairly common one, but as I’m still figuring out the nuances of eggcornism, I am wondering if it more of a malaprop than an eggcorn. Since coronet means a crown (or a part of a horse’s hoof), it may not quality. What do you think? (Examples below.)
[PDF] August Wilson was born on April 27, 1945 and grew up in the Hill …File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat – View as HTML
learned to play the coronet while in reform. school—serving a sentence for shooting a gun in. the air on New Year’s Eve. As a teenager, he …
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Might be learning trumpet soon… [Archive] – Sax on the Web ForumUsed to play the coronet in elementry then went for tenor sax in high school. Can’t remember either very well. But recently (3 years ago) got a sax and …
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Family HistoryAnd as for the coronet, Scott’s reasoning was – if the horn is so hard to learn, why waste any time learning to play the coronet. From that time on there …
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Southside Johnny.com: The Bandand they said, “You can play the coronet, which is like a trumpet, or a clarinet or a saxophone.” So I said, “I’ll play the trumpet or the coronet. ...
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Stephen Beck’s Autograph PageRaised by his mother in extreme poverty, Armstrong learned to play the coronet at an early age in order to sell rags on the street as a rag picker. ...
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Be Aware – Louis ArmstrongDuring his time at the home, Louis learned how to play the coronet and bugle in the school band of which he eventually became the leader. ...
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Continental, Ohio – Doc Williams | WOSU StationsHis father taught him how to play the coronet and he learned to play the harmonica, guitar, and accordion by ear. After working as a coal miner for less …
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Feeling quite combobulated.
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Just as you suspected, it’s a malapropism. If the utterers actually believed the imagery of the misused word, then it might qualify as an eggcorn. Though, I do wonder if there are any circumstances where the interchanging of “coronet” and “cornet” would make sense.
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Yeah, I think people just get the words confused. And I think that because I think (lots of thinking here—none of it profound, most of it elitist) that few people know what a “coronet” REALLY is.
And I also remember LeBeau on Hogan’s Heroes and his “colonel”
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PQiZwfE … ed&search= )
in which the middle syllable is actually sounded, while us English speakers never use it. I think that’s part of what’s happening.
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