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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A local radio commentator suggests in passing, ”(These structures [flying buttresses] are sometimes improperly referred to flying buttrests because of their presumed function as places where angels could rest their weary bones.)”
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kunc/ … ID=1240006
I rather expected to find this in the database, but it doesn’t appear to be there. A quick Google search suggests why: there are only eight unique returns for “flying butt rest” or “flying buttrest,” and none of them seem clearly eggcorn-ish. (One is a transcript of the radio broadcast I heard this morning.) Still, Dr. Ringle has an excellent explanation for the reshaping, assuming that it does exist.
Probable misspelling:
Buttress, an external support to the wall of a building-, Flying Buttrest, one supporting an upper wall with which it is connected by an arch above a lower part of the building
http://books.google.com/books?id=LeINAA … uUPY&hl=en
Unrelated usage?
if you use the ferrari tails it would be a lot like a 355 since they dont have the flying butt rest.
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/057157-2.html
Potential eggcorn:
The picture of the flying chair reminds me of a moment in my adolescence when I first heard the term “flying buttress.” I thought the teacher had said “flying butt-rest” and that picture was exactly what I had pictured in my head.
http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000144.html
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This one has good possibility as an eggcorn. Architectural structures that butt up against one another can rest upon one or the other. A buttress seems to have both elements. So, the imagery works for me.
Last edited by jorkel (2008-03-10 10:56:32)
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