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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This seems to be a common substitution, perhaps because epitaphs are generally written, suggesting a need for the root ’-graph.’ Just searching on the phrase, ‘his own epigraph,’ I found these (among others):
In ‘Funeral Directions,’ he puts forward a suggestion for his own epigraph: ‘Let the light fall / evenly on brindled cow and satellite dish, ...
www.wm.edu/english/news_archive.php?fetchid=7431
Writing his own epigraph, Thomas Jefferson omitted the fact that he had served as President of the United States for two difficult terms.
query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEEDF103DF935A3575AC0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewan
The back cover says he composed his own epigraph: “I lived, wrote, loved.” Mine’s going to be: “I lived, chaired meetings, made my own lunches, ...
www.antigonishreview.com/bi-145/145-fic … lomba.html
Brooke writes his own epigraph and shows a moving sense of the poet’s deep love of England and it’s people.
www.courseworkhelp.co.uk/GCSE/English_Literature/13.htm
Hamlet carries his own epigraph from the start; the words of Fortebraccio will be heard once again to finish a story that repeats itself from the moment …
www.ffeac.org/483.page
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A similar (but different!) discussion here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2157
That one was epithet vs. epitaph.
Apparently there is a lot of confusion between these three words!
Feeling quite combobulated.
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It’s not just ‘epitaph,’ ‘epigraph,’ and epitaph.’ “Epigram’ gets mixed in too, since epitaphs are a variety of epigram, e.g.-
He was first bred in a private school in Saint Martins Church, then in Westminster school, witness his own Epigram:. Camden, most reverend Head, ...
198.82.142.160/spenser/BiographyRecord.php?action=GET&bioid=32933
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