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Chris -- 2018-04-11
About 15 or 20 google hits for juries prudence, all of them seemingly genuine mistakes, and many more for Jury’s prudence, some clearly mistakes but some obviously deliberate puns or actual references to the prudence of a jury or what have you.
“Indeed there is a case before the European Court of Justice on this very issue now involving the Azores and Portugal and both the UK and the Gibraltar Government intend to intervene in that case to ensure that the Court does not establish juries prudence on the question of regional selectivity without the benefit of full argument and certainly with full argument such as would favour the application or the non application of that principle to the case of Gibraltar, which is different to the Azores because the Azores is part of metropolitan Portugal”
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I posted a variant of this—“jurist prudence”—back in September; since that post is no longer visible on the Forum, I’ve rescued it from cache and posted it below (in smooshed form). The final writer eloquently expresses his/her distaste for this eggcorn:
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Commentary by pat schwieterman , 2005/09/24 at 10:28 pm
“Jurist prudence†for “jurisprudence.†968 Google hits, though lots of those are self-conscious fakecorns. There are clearly still hundreds of examples of the genuine eggcorn, many of them on government sites. Examples:
In 1999, 15 states required physical therapist applying for initial licensure to take a jurist prudence examination, and 11 states require physical therapist assistants to take the jurist prudence examination [….]
66.102.7.104/search?q=cac…
[…] there will be an inquisition for blood with which nothing that has been known in the annals of criminal jurist prudence can compare.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.c…
Based on British law, Bermuda practices the highest standard of jurist prudence.
www.bermuda.com/business/…
She earned her masters of social work and doctorate of jurist prudence from the University of Louisville.
corrections.ky.gov/news/r…
Try to use the words correctly: jurisprudence is the philosophy of law; jurisprudent is one steeped in the law; prudent jurists are those who apply the philosophy correctly and according to actual law. Jurist prudence, in the way you’ve used it, is meaningless gibberish.
news.zdnet.com/5208-9588-…
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