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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Tenerife is a popular holiday destination and its pronunciation is commonly anglicized to just the three syllables, omitting the final ‘ay’ sound. Little wonder then that some folk might assume that (like The Greatbarrierife) it’s a nice hot surfy seaside destination which has a reef. If the term hadn’t been broken into two parts I might assume it was a simple mis-spelling, but two-part variants abound:
Seethe gather the upper class from Monaco, Buenos Aires, Tenner Reef, etc. so we can put these
!#!@ in there places!!!! B
As of yet i have no plans, i was thinking of going away to Tenna Reef with some friends, but it looks like it fell through. I may end up going to New York …
At the moment i may be going to Tena Reef with some friends, but its still in the planing stages. I was putting serious plans into going to Australia for …
Originally i was hesitant because at tenner reef we were locked in a room for 4 hours and they stole out passports. We also did one in spain and were kept …
cant wait till the summer me & ham have so much planned & cat wants to go to tena reef which will be a laugh as well I have started to save a lot of money …
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Tenner Reef? Is that near the Tajma Hall or the Caucases Mountains?
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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One of the things I like about this one in its “Tenner” form is that it seems to fit into a class of place-names—like, say, “Shipwreck Bay” or “Dead Man’s Point”—that evoke an originary narrative known only to locals and/or tour guides. I wonder whether the users ever speculate to themselves on the story behind the name. A ten-pound wager between the two people who first encountered the reef? The mysterious discovery of a cache of ten-pound notes?
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Tenner Reef? Is that near the Tajma Hall or the Caucases Mountains?
That’s the Caucuses mountains.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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