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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Sarah Palin thinks global warming is a hoak
Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] It is a Hoak Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 08:18:30 +0100 … This is a hoak. To any of you who have deleted the file I enclose …
Is it just a hoak or is it fact? Read more inside and decide for yourself.
what a hoak, tempted to send it back…about a week later of pure agonizing pain i applied the tape to my knee and have been pain free
Well, from my point of view, it’s definitely a hoak. A company with such a diverse branches of highest technology shoul´d have several …
If crime rate is up then this team captains at every block and reporting of crimes is nothing but a hoak. Community policing doesn’t work.
If it’s a back-formation from hoax, one would expect there to be contexts in which either a singular or a plural could be construed. Can’t think of any common ones, though perhaps hoaxes gets pronounced sometimes so that the final -es is barely or not audible.
A restructuring or back-formation off hokey seems more straightforward. In fact, “hoke†occurs as well.
I’m a fraud, a hoke, a charlatan, a joke, But they love me … everywhere.
take this advice live by evry word love is just a hoke so forget anything that you have heard and live for the moment now.
(This in turn could also be a fingerslip typo for joke in a number of uses.)
If it’s hoax being re-analyzed as hoak-s or hoke-s, and hoak/hoke understood as the same root as hoke-y, (and this is standard for someone, etc.) I think it’s an eggcorn.
Blending with “it’s a crockâ€, or “it’s (just) a joke†are also possibilities, of course.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2008-08-30 18:06:10)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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