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Not my list, Google's list. My point remains that the word isn't in wide use here so your wit was lost on me.Nanohedron wrote:And yes, if you want a dependably straight answer, do cross off Urban Dictionary from your list.
Your list, Google's list, my list, anyone's list. It's an idiom. Surely you've heard it before?david_h wrote:Not my list, Google's list.
Which word?david_h wrote:My point remains that the word isn't in wide use here so your wit was lost on me.
Nanohedron wrote: Which word?
Nanohedron wrote: They left an S off the author's last name.
The eggcorn doesn't fall very far from the tree, does it?Nanohedron wrote:As you might accordingly surmise, "Crisco" would be almost de rigueur as a Yank's eggcorn for both "Kisco" and "Cristo".
Quiche, lol. My church music director persisted in saying " Kish."Nanohedron wrote:Aw, c'mon; you can say it. Around these parts some say "Varnish". I like your "Vanish" better, though; then you could call the tune "The Mohel"benhall.1 wrote:Ooh, and ... um ... "Vanish My ... " something or other .... But I call it "The Spanish Misfortune"; got that from a kid who misheard me. I like it; it sounds like a venereal pox. Then there's "The Chinese Chickens", which was an actual mishearing on my own part
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At a session I once launched into what I announced as "Montezuma's Revenge". "Montezuma's Revenge?" they cried; "But that's The Stool of Repentance!" "Think about it," said I.
I love mangled tune names; I've probably got a million of 'em. I will be eternally grateful to the green young fellow who pronounced "The Kesh" as "The Quiche".
"The Flying Toad"? I'm drawing a blank.
FWIW, I read you loud and clear...Nanohedron wrote: I honestly didn't think my point was all that subtle, but maybe I've outdone myself unawares.
I am not being cryptic. You gave focus to the word. You had to explain your initial cryptic reference to it because a Brit said he didn't get it. Maybe my reference to the 'common language' discussion was too cryptic a way of pointing out that it was not in wide usage in the UK. Does your pronunciation of 'Dumas' lead to homophony?Nanohedron wrote:So the word "dumbass" has little currency in your vernacular, then? Is that it?
Why so cryptic?
Not in the slightest: "dew-MA" is the standard pronunciation, and mine as well. Nevertheless, "Dumas" could of course be mispronounced in a number of ways, and my proposed additional S suggested what is certainly the most amusing - if, that is, "dumbass" were part of one's vocabulary.david_h wrote:Does your pronunciation of 'Dumas' lead to homophony?
And here I had given up any hope of it being appreciated in my lifetime.Katharine wrote:I love the Montezuma's Revenge, lol.
Apparently it's strictly an American thing.Katharine wrote:FWIW, I read you loud and clear...Nanohedron wrote: I honestly didn't think my point was all that subtle, but maybe I've outdone myself unawares.
(Though it may be due to the fact that I sometimes pronounce that word that way for funsies.)
That, too.kkrell wrote:The eggcorn doesn't fall very far from the tree, does it?Nanohedron wrote:As you might accordingly surmise, "Crisco" would be almost de rigueur as a Yank's eggcorn for both "Kisco" and "Cristo".