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#1 2021-04-10 12:19:09

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1222

'risky' for 'risqué'

Twice today (and most of the time I’ve been bent like a hairpin, cursing garden weeds) I’ve encountered this most obvious of eggcorns. If it’s in already, I don’t know how I’ve missed it.
In this part of the world there is a yet smaller part of the 2% who speak RP who might pronounce risky as risqué, and they are perhaps 90% of those who might use the latter term at all.

When you make a risky joke and it all starts kicking off.

If you can tell a risky joke, then your audience is allowed to challenge you for it – and in some cases, this must be done.

We live in a time, where a risky joke can destroy your life.

I like a risky joke as much as the next person, but sharing it online is a sure way of getting yourself noticed by employers for all the wrong reasons and is …

DAVID Cameron has teased Boris Johnson with a risky joke about his old university pal’s love child as he turned stand-up comic for a night.

Hislop and Paul Merton as team captains, has a rotation of presenting guests after former host Angus Deayton was sacked for a risky joke.

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#2 2021-04-26 13:19:20

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2851

Re: 'risky' for 'risqué'

You get the low hanging fruit award—if you can unbend far enough to pick it.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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