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LOL - Here's the title of a thread I started over in the Food forum. Do you suppose it might be a Freudian slip? If you've ever seen a black truffle that could come to mind.
You hate those tax money give away programs, don't you. You should celibate getting some of it back.
You just jogged my memory!
The same former co-worker who pronounced "charisma" as "chair-ezz-ma" had a habit of mangling a lot of words and phrases. One of the more memorable gaffes--which I heard on multiple occasions--was when, instead of saying "cause celebre", he would say "cause celibate".
There's a huge billboard along our highway that is for a hotel in Onley, Virginia that says, "The Only Hotel". You'd think there'd be more than one in a town that size.
Went missing is discussed back upthread a bit. It's a British idiom that has caught on in the US.
These nGram viewers suggest that it caught on at about the same time in both countries ( about 1970) and its increase in popularity rose in both countries hand in hand to about the same level.
Today I read a sign: "We Sale Packing Boxes". ohhhh please stop.
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