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#1 2007-12-24 11:57:16

Mark Mandel
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Registered: 2006-09-20
Posts: 9

love and first site

for “love at first sight”. Only 6 googits, one of which is irrelevant (“site” for “sight”, with the rest of the phrase coming from context). Of the other five, one could be a deliberate pun, since it’s about buying a house, but the others are pretty certainly genuine blunders/eggcorns:

Woulda Coulda Shoulda » We plan to raise peaches and cardsharks
It was love and first site with that house; it sounds really beautiful. Considering that it is warm down here for about six months out of the year, ...
wouldashoulda.com/2007/06/05/we-plan-to-raise-peaches-and-cardsharks/ – 75k

Stevey’s Blog Rants: Code’s Worst Enemy
It was love and first site and my passion about Scala the language and the Scala community has intensified over the last year. ...
steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html – 269k

CCK9s New Leash on Life
When he saw Zee it was love and first site. I did a home check and he signed the four page adoption contract, and Zee went from being a stray to finding a …
www.angelfire.com/oh4/cck9s/ – 30k

Concert Tickets For Sale around Fayetteville, NC – Oodle.com
Babii~gurl: Its Like Love And First Site:}. Date:: Dec 22, Sat. Listing on:: Myspace.com, 2 Hours Ago. see details hide details …
fayettevillenc.oodle.com/sale/tickets/concert/-/event_date_20071222/ – 196k

what is love?
And, I do believe at love and first site, and if I think someone’s hot, I’d just go up to them and start talking =] Hope I’ve Helped! ...
www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=311750 – 29k

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#2 2008-01-02 14:00:47

burntsox
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Registered: 2007-11-03
Posts: 9

Re: love and first site

Mark – Happy holidays, and the best in 2008.

I’m not so sure I can sign on with “love and first site” because this doesn’t have an alternate meaning. I really, really tried—for example, you love something so much that you want to establish a household with it and set up living in a new house, at the first site you see…

Nope, I tried. You’ve captured a jarring mishearing, but I don’t think it’s a full fledged eggcorn

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