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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Recently overheard two men discussing a woman who apparently had come on hard times, living in a trailer, substance abuse, and so on. Said the one to the other: “She is living in absolute squander….”
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Just found the following hits on google:
Guatemala: A Political History
The future has little light in store for the Guatemalans who are living in squander while keeping the oppulent capitlist class afloat. ...www.geocities.com/mnsocialist/guatemala.html –
Left to live, if you could consider it that, in suburbia, farmland wasted, with rich and poor living in squander side by side. ...
everydayjae.blogspot.com/2007/12/needing-more.html –
Can you be sensitve and still be a police officer? – Yahoo! Answers
Be prepared to deal with the worst of human behavior; be prepared to see abused children, some to the point of being murdered; people living in squander and …
answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070605105141AALAzn5&show=7 – 65k –
Dictionary of Missouri Biography – Google Books Result
by Lawrence O. Christensen – 1999 – History – 856 pages
Old Testament houses”; “They’re living in squander”; “We’re all cremated equal”; “The food in that restaurant was abdominal”; “Congress is still in season”; ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0826212220…
Ming the Mechanic: ebay scams
I am still amased that anyone in the US would do business with anyone form these countries, they are all a bunch of thieves living in squander and have only …
ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-000653.htm – 365k –
DISCLAIMER: ANY REPRESENTATION OUTSIDE THIS WEB SITE OF SMOKER …
Dialysis machines hard to come by living in squander and in Caves? Or are you worried about close associates constantly being killed and BLOWN UP? ...
www.smokerdave.com/archives/123006.html – 625k –
are we dealing with a true eggcorn?
Holbrook
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Wow, I think you’ve got a good one, here. The funny thing to me is that one would think that if someone knew the meaning of “squander” they would also know the meaning of “squalor”. But, such is the essence of the human mind…and the eggcorn. I would also suppose that if one squandered one’s wealth, they very well may come to live in squalor.
Good find! And welcome to the forum!
Last edited by booboo (2007-12-30 21:49:58)
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Very nice eggcorn. I think “squalor” is a much less known word than “squander.” I particularly like the notion that a person who has squandered (her) resources is living in a state of “squander” ...I almost feel like spelling it “squandor”! :-)
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I’m glad “my” eggcorn is getting good press….thanks for the comments.
I wonder how one would go about deciding whether the word “squander” is more or less well known than the word “squalor?” Or for that matter, any of the changed words that create an eggcorn. Would it be tied to some notion of frequency of use? Or is it basically an intuition we all have about the words we use, and which ones we think may be more common. For example, i recently used the word “ostensible” in an introductory college class of about 35 students, and none of them knew the word. Which surprised me.Holbrrok
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