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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Today (on NPR) I heard the word concomitant pronounced “con-COMMIT-ant” and found it peculiar that the aspect of commitment might be intended. Something which is concomitant simply accompanies something else, but the notion of something being conCOMMITant would suggest a stronger binding of two things, so a legitimate sense can be extracted.
The etymology of concomitant shows comitari to accompany. “Commit” derives from committere’ to connect …which further derives form mittere to send. The etymologies seem distinct—as do the meaning—so, this would support an eggcorn classification for “conCOMMITant”.
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Well, I could have added this word to the list of words that I’ve mispronounced for most of my life, in just the way you heard it on the radio. I’ve always been perfectly familiar with its spelling and meaning. I simply never happened to hear it. Your speaker may have been in the same boat. So I vote “no eggcorn.”
David
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