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Chris -- 2018-04-11
An uncommon cross-language confusion. Examples:
But where we know well enough what a poet is, the “contrarian†is a rarer avis…
www.jamesbowman.net/articleDetail.asp?pubID=1034
Just to make sure, it was also at this time that Matthew dropped one letter to become a rarer Avis and reinvented himself as Mathew.
www.twentyfirstcenturypublishers.com/in … pageid=320
For first he played the Sonata in D Major, K 491 (a rarer avis) with transparency and cohesion.
www.nyccgs.org/resources/newsletter/arc … vita_1.php
...that rarer avis, an honest lawyer…
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I don’t quite follow. Do you think that people who use the phrase “rare® avis” are making some reference to the Avis car rental company? If not, and they know “avis” means bird, then isn’t “rare® avis” just a misquoted Latin phrase? The English “rare” is presumably derived from “rarus.”
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Well, there may not be much to this, but I was curious about how people reinterpreted the two syllable Latin word ‘rara.’ I agree that ‘rare avis’ isn’t an eggcorn, but ‘rarer avis’ might be.
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Seems like I’m having one of my (increasingly frequent) dense days. How is “rarer avis” an eggcorn?
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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