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#1 2008-09-29 21:09:17

ilpirata
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From: NC
Registered: 2008-08-07
Posts: 12

"leads itself" < "lends itself"

So I heard my friend say this a couple days ago in conversation, I just did a search for it on google and came up with ~15000 hits, a lot of which were legitimate but a good number of which were instances of an eggcorn where the parent phrase is “lends itself.” I guess it’s a pretty convoluted/opaque construction, so it makes sense that people eggcornify it. Here are some examples.

“As a consequence, the proposed bag leads itself to be used in industrial applications”
“Golf is a game that leads itself to discussion as well as to competition, to team building as well as winning.”
“The format is very simple and leads itself to a single read-through or picking a page at random.”

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#2 2008-09-29 22:10:01

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2887

Re: "leads itself" < "lends itself"

Arrr, il pirata, some fine fine eggcorrrns yer be a-findin’.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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#3 2008-09-30 16:28:34

ilpirata
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From: NC
Registered: 2008-08-07
Posts: 12

Re: "leads itself" < "lends itself"

haha thanks, this is fun. i have given up any ambitions of becoming a linguist so i guess i’ll just be a linguistics geek on the side and post on forums like this :)

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