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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This came to my attention in an email from a friend:
“See, we did this lunch-in and [a coworker] brought in these baked sandwiches…”
Other examples on the net:
“I think all the Sales professionals in the Campbell , Santa Clara, San Jose , Palo Alto, San Mateo areas should try to come at leat twice a week for our lunch in.”
http://www.meetup.com/Sales-People-Lunchin/
“Got meetings to go to, a lunchin with a new cliet”
http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:omg:290 … les-Center
“Officers went to a lunchin, where we learned about how to get studen’t involved in the school”
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=3 … topic=6192
“I had gone to a lunch in with friends earlier that day, so I guess you can say I was dressed really nice”
http://www.city-data.com/forum/relation … o-you.html
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Welcome to the foum, aerin. Good start. A well-formed eggcorn, and surprisingly common.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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I think a couple of the examples given are eggcorns—because the utterer appears unaware that the real word is “luncheon”. Other occurences might be intentional reshapings.
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