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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Orthographically just like ridged < rigid , but semantically rather different.
Lilly from the fridged north – Page 2 – Halloween Forum
Sour Flour: Fridged Air – [ Traducir esta página ] Fridged Air. I know it was going to be a hard day when my fingers had numbed up before I even pulled my boots out of the car.
Teen Dating question: I love this boy but im fridged what should i do?
My mom takes out food from the fridge hours before serving…oops … At the end, eating fresh is more healthier than eating fridged food.
She’s Melting and Otherwise Losing It.: Fridged Cold Day – [ Traducir esta página ] Fridged Cold Day. It is so cold out today! I just want to stay in, wrap up in a soft blanket and watch TV!
The instruction says “keep fridged at 40F for 10+ hours.†I don’t blame if you coundn’t wait
According to Chinese Mythology, Taoist Paradise is situated in the innaccessible, fridged vastness of China’s Kunlun Mountains
(I suppose people are pronouncing both this and ridged as two-syllable words.)
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This one seems very common, though I don’t trust the google stats I got very much.
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I think people are deriving the word from fridge , which is of course a shortened form of refrigerator , which has the same etymological source as frigid . So in one sense it is a reversion to the historic root of the word. But I think the detour through the 20th century machine is enough of a change to qualify this as an eggcorn. Also the orthographical change from the adjectival -id to the participial -ed is significant (and eggcornish), I think, though in pronunciation they are extremely close if not identical.
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In some of the usages —e.g. “eating fresh is more healthier than eating fridged foodâ€â€” it is quite plausible that people actually mean “(having been) refrigerated (in a fridge)†rather than just “coldâ€. Those may be productive formations. But they also may be deformations of “frigidâ€.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-03-05 07:49:23)
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I think people are deriving the word from fridge , which is of course a shortened form of refrigerator , which has the same etymological source as frigid . So in one sense it is a reversion to the historic root of the word. But I think the detour through the 20th century machine is enough of a change to qualify this as an eggcorn. Also the orthographical change from the adjectival -id to the participial -ed is significant (and eggcornish), I think, though in pronunciation they are extremely close if not identical.
Hi David. I loved the rigid/ridged eggcorn, but I don’t like the round trip in the etymology of frigid/fridged. However, if we ignore the root words, perhaps we could make a generic case for the -id/-ed eggcorn. (In which case, rigid/ridged might be considered a double eggcorn).
I wonder how many other -id/-ed pairs we can find? Perhaps we could tag on others here rather than start new threads.
Within the Database the pattern eggcorns that come closest to this pattern are sordid/sorted and hybrid/high bred.
Within the Forum we’ve seen candid/canded.
Last edited by jorkel (2009-03-05 09:46:01)
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I agree, I don’t find this one as good/attractive/fun an eggcorn either. Depending on one’s definitions, maybe it isn’t even an eggcorn. But it’s there, and worth thinking about.
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Yes, -id/-ed pairs would be interesting. nakid ? ranced ? …
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A similar pair I was just reminded of: -al/-le. As in, our shared cubical held a desk for each of us .
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-03-05 09:27:04)
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