Eggcorn Forum

“Strife” (n.) is conflict, inferred to be from Proto-Germanic roots, appearing in English 60 years post-Hastings, from O.Fr. estrif. “Strafe” (v.) comes from the same roots, but popped up in English only at the beginning of the XX c. during WWI. It means “punish” in German; strafing came to signify “firing upon a target from a low-flying aircraft” during WWII. So when strifing is used as a verb to replace strafing, is it an eggcorn? Kind of. It’s an eggcorn with a foetal attraction maybe. The name comes from the unusual cases where siblings, separated early in life, meet, fall madly in love and marry, or are stopped at the altar by a shocking revelation. (http://www.haitiwebs.com/forums/world_n … ingly.html)

These are the same lovely friends that strifed and bombed the USS LIBERTY killing at least two dozen Americans.
(http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum … 533720/pg1)

My mom’s father’s job during WWII was to unload the civilian dead off of passenger ferries Americans strifed with .50 cal machineguns.
(http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread … 412&page=3)

A few artifacts were powerful. Among them, the bullet-strifed pickup of a Time foreign correspondent
(http://blogs.courant.com/roger_catlin_t … wseum.html)

While driving from Paris to Vichy, our embassy car, a Buick, was strifed twice by marauding warplanes.
(http://users.sedona.net/~sepa/vichy.html)

The Wagner blares out of the speakers and the Vietnamese village is strifed with gunfire and missles
(http://www.thecinematheque.com/2005reviews_im.html)

Lets say one end of the set will have a localized out break of fire and the other end will have a stuntman
slammed against a wall strifed by gunfire.
(http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_st … a_film_set)

I can’t remember how many times he used the strifing run, each time killing a lot of my soldiers.
(http://www.gamereplays.org/companyofher … m&id=34809)

Last edited by burred (2009-04-22 07:37:55)