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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Spotted on a forum here:
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?Fo … =16#139112
I’m not even sure how to spell the original, let alone the eggcorned version. But it’s a nice variation.
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Since these are onomatopoeic words, there probably isn’t a standardized spelling, and these sounds (um, er, uh, etc.) tend to vary regionally and by language. People in Germany or Japan use different “filler” sounds than North Americans, for example. “Hemmed and hawed” is, I think, a variation on “ummed and ahed.”
Feeling quite combobulated.
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Then there’s the “erm” in British that’s really pronounced “uhm.”
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A related one: “with no humming, and no hemming around the hedge”. Not an eggcorn, particularly, but entertaining nonetheless.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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