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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I was just listening to someone at work refer to his mother’s cookie recipe. From the speed and phonetics of his words I started to wonder how he spelled home made since it sounded “homade”. Then what do I find, thousands of Google hits for his version of the word. I don’t know what to call it (eggcorn, slip, or reshape), but I know it’s not the original word.
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Maybe his mother IS an actual ‘Ho’? Ho-made cookies! Brilliant!
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Well, snarkymikey, not sure how funny that is.
Otherwise, I’m missing the semantic component there. It’s maybe some kind of contracted spelling.
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To make it worse, “home made” no longer means “made at home” as evidenced by the many restaurants that offer home-made desserts and other foods. I’m sure these desserts (except in a few small restaurants) were not made in homes at all, so they are not home made.
“I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
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