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It totally naygates what he was trying to do.

we hate. we destroy. we naygate. we discriminate. we are the us of a? I dont understand as we live our lives.

You say some good things curious and then you will say some off the wall things, which naygate the very truth you just stated.

Still, that doesn’t naygate the fact that Surefire makes some good lights. They have the tactical flashlight market cornered for sure.

He did buy me a christmas gift but the card attached with that gift kind of naygated the goodness of the gift as it was written impersonal

I have this one recorded both in speech and in writing. It of course makes sense to derive the first syllable from “nay”, though what the gates have to do with it I haven’t figured out.

I also have recorded the following, from a public address:

It completely nay-gets, ... nay-gets the whole thing.

This one I wasn’t able to document with Google. The one I recorded orally sounded like the speaker knew there was something funny with what he had said, so he tried again and came out with the same thing. It could be a more complete eggcorning (getting the whole thing to say nay, or getting up a nay against it.) It could also be a metathesis of the vowel sounds [eʲ] and [ɛ]. In any case, unless we find somebody for whom it is standard rather than awkward and puzzling, it’s not a clear eggcorn (aygcorn?).

I’d love to find “naygot” sometime. …

Last edited by DavidTuggy (2008-10-24 11:11:07)