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Chris -- 2018-04-11
47 unique hits, not all word-play…
“Bungee” is a pretty odd word, a combination of rubbery, bouncy and spongy perhaps, and it has only been in common circulation since 1979 apparently. It would have been useful if budgies, like tumbler pigeons, had the habit of falling out of the sky then flapping to safety at the last moment. Still, I think the notion of hopping off a high perch into thin air without crashing into the ground is supported by the substitution of ‘budgie’ for ‘bungee’.
It will be amazing, I get to budgie jump over victoria falls. And play with elephants (they have a pet one at the reserve I ll be staying at) Im going to be …
www.myspaceprofiles.org/profiles/1391975.html – 23k – Cached
I didn’t do crazy stuff like shy dive or budgie jump but just the stupid every day stuff some guys do. I know what saved me most if not all of the time is …
www.warrenssingapore.com/aboutme.htm – 31k – Cached
Such as solo sky dive, or budgie jump, or hang glide, kayak, white watch rafting, snowboarding in BC, theres more.. but i forget :p but to top the list …
www.plentyoffish.com/member5185513.htm – 23k – Cached
This may be why I always wanted to sky dive or budgie jump, or go deep-sea diving. An entire, three dimensional world out there, space to move in, ...
www.skizzers.org/amethyst/rab/blog/log0201.html – 22k – Cached
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I would have expected this to be a mostly-UK eggcorn, bcs Americans don’t use the term “budgie”—we call them parakeets.
Though we may have heard the word “budgie” now and then; we just don’t use it very often. But several of these are USA in origin.
The MySpace on is from someone in Ohio
The WarrenSingapore link is a US Navy officer, but he is in Singapore now, which has British roots
The plentyoffish writer is from Alberta, Canada, which of course has British roots
Maybe the fact that we don’t use the term “budgie” actually contributed to the development of the eggcorn—we don’t know what it is really; we just know it’s a familiar word. (but then, it’s not a clear image substitution, which means it’s not really an eggcorn?)
I didn’t find that many hits, and some of them were references to budgies jumping, and one satirical one in which the author jumps with his budgie, then realizes he got the term wrong and squished his bird needlessly.
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