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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Not an eggcorn but, perhaps, worthy of recording as there seems to be many such examples of a distinct sub-species of malapropism resulting from the accidental mangling of French by English speakers.
‘Menage a trois’ is simply a living arrangement but in English is used in a sexual sense only. ‘Melange a trois’ is a blend of three things – usually applied to a musical trio or three elements of culinary delight – rather than the dubious sexual imagery of the following examples…
... a king size bed. notice there are three pillows. it was a threesome from Europe doing a melange-a-trois maybe. don’t remember folks …
www.cancunsteve.com/mexicocity/marlinlong307.htm – 5k – Cached
Adrienne, My writer was involved in a melange a trois and it was complicated. It was dificult for her, when you combine sexuality with friends and it is …
rapids.canoe.ca/cgi-bin/NewChat/NC-transcript.pl?CHAT_NAME=Flirt-23&WATCHER_ID=000023&ACTION=TRAN… – 36k – Cached
joining a melange-a-trois…a la MFM. I mean, this has been sorta kinda on my mind for a while now, but I’ve yet to find the man i had hoped to meet to have …
www.43things.com/things/view/1057355 – 29k – Supplemental Result – Cached
And here’s another: ‘corsage’ for ‘cortege’:
I would be grateful to join the funeral corsage wendling its way down this hallowed street-and-a-half. His p.r. on our behalf has what I always call Big Mo …
query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9800E0DB133BF93BA15751C0A964948260 – 34k – 18 May 2007 – Cached
I wasn’t meaning to be sacreligious – but I’d just passed a funeral corsage of a biker and all his Hell’s Angel friends, having attended a ton-up funeral at …
www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=137631 – 47k – Supplemental Result – Cached
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In Peter’s final example, I especially like the image of a Hell’s Angel with a corsage.
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