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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A “fashion accessory” is something that’s worn along with your essential clothing – and it often seems excessive to those of us who habitually “dress down.” The possibility of intentional wordplay is very high for something like this, but those citations below appear to be sincere. Nearly all of them appeared in discussion forums – the kinds of places where you find lots of spelling errors. 121 raw hits for “fashion excessory”; 60 unique. (The last citation shows that the good folks at pseudodictionary.com beat me to this one.) Examples:
They are both more fashion excessory than utility. So they come over deperate.Yes, the Mini drives nice, but most people I see driving one are blond twenty something women who I suspect work as part of a “sales team”.
http://forums.subdriven.com/zerothread? … 809&page=4
Just seems like having a car or suv that has a clear purpose only to be used as a fashion excessory is a shame.
http://www.rmcb5.com/forums/index.php/topic,1756.0.html
I still think its down to the fans the trouble is at the moment the premiership seems to be a fashion excessory.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/discussions/pos … 35589.page
Hey they make Prada cool, why not kids. Kids could be the latest fashion excessory.
http://www.bust.com/lounge/index.php?s= … entry73119
Most of the time girls just wear rings as a fashion excessory that’s what i do at least
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 109AAIJRvN
excessory – A fashion accessory that embodies excessive opulence, debauchery, or fabulousness.
http://www.pseudodictionary.com/search. … estart=560
Last edited by patschwieterman (2008-04-23 23:53:19)
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I wonder if the utterers were in the crossfire between those who push fashion accessories and those who preach against the excesses of society. One word in each ear produces an eggcorn.
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This reminds me of the except/accept pair: You often read “He will never except such-and-such.” Which in a way is the opposite of not being able to accept something. (It’s been covered briefly in the forums: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=1161 ) But excessory is great, because it puts forth the idea of “wretched excess” while also communicating “accessory.”
I’m surprised this one doesn’t pop up more frequently as it is such a great play on words (whether it started intentionally or not).
Feeling quite combobulated.
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The confusion between access/excess, accept/except etc. is only going to get worse as Americans follow the trend of dropping the hard “c”, as is now almost universally done with “succint” and “flaccid”. I hear “assessory” quite often, and even “asseptable” and “sussessful” occasionally.
Last edited by SkookumPete (2008-04-29 11:14:08)
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SkookumPete wrote:
The confusion between access/excess, accept/except etc. is only going to get worse as Americans follow the trend of dropping the hard “c”, as is now almost universally done with “succint” and “flaccid”. I hear “assessory” quite often, and even “asseptable” occasionally.
I understand that it is almost de rigueur to decry new, non-standard usages (including pronunciation), but surely pronouncing accept as “assept” or access as “assess” would differentiate them from except and excess, wouldn’t it? It would, however, make access quite similar to assess.
(With apologies for the off-topic response)
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another semantic reasoning behind “excessory” or “excessorize.”
When one starts to pay attention to one’s wardrobe and clothing choices and to begin dressing for effect, especially if one is a young woman, one finds fashion magazines exhorting one to increase the impact of their choices by adding small items—a necklace, belt, scarf.
This takes normal fashion and increases it. One goes from being adequate to being more than adequate. “Excessorized.”
So it is the person adding the excessories who is looking to go beyond acceptable, to go outside the bounds of being simply “tasteful” to being “fabulous.”
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But maybe HYDRA, having excess to all of SHIELD’s data about the Hulk, already has a countermeasure for that case.
[from a movie discussion thread]
An Ixquick search on “have excess to” yielded in access of 800 hits. I don’t see any eggcornish meaning connection, so I reckon it’s just a confused substitution.
Searching on “drink to access” also yielded a few hits, so, FWIW, the substitution goes both directions.
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